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Where will the EU draw the line in Ukraine?
EU measures against Russia punish 21 individuals from Russia and Crimea with travel bans and asset freezes.
Vladimir Putin claims that Russia has withdrawn 40,000 troops from Ukraine’s border – but Nato says there is “no indication” of this.
William Hague says reports that chemical weapons have once again been used against the people of Syria are “utterly sickening”.
EU measures against Russia punish 21 individuals from Russia and Crimea with travel bans and asset freezes.
With the eyes of the world on Ukraine, an escalated campaign of barrel bombings by the regime of Bashar al-Assad has led to the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children in Syria.
Armed men, thought to be Russians, seize a Ukrainian military base in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s premier rejects Crimea’s planned referendum.
US and EU diplomacy to end the Ukraine crisis is being undermined by the lack of appetite among some countries for any course of action that might influence Russia’s next moves.
Here at Channel 4 News we try hard to keep the plight of people in the Central Africa Republic on the radar – and Monday’s UN report makes for sobering reading.
The UK has no intention of doing anything “muscular” to stop Russia taking Crimea, which is now considered as returned fully to the Russian sphere.
Putin is no salesman for democracy – but for now “big bad Russia”, “big nasty Putin” and “poor heroic Ukraine” look a little too simplistic to me.
Russia’s defence ministry dismisses claims that it had threatened Ukrainian troops in Crimea with a “real assault” if they did not surrender by the early hours of Tuesday morning as “utter nonsense”.
The escalating crisis in Crimea has set a number of western powers against Russia in a battle of words that includes threats of “costs” and allegations of illegal behaviour.
Prime Minister David Cameron says it would be wrong for British ministers to attend the Paralympics in Sochi because of the serious situation in Ukraine.
Members of Ukraine’s new government are brought out to face the people at Kiev’s independence square. In Russia, President Vladimir Putin puts troops on alert.
“Dangerous signs of separatism” are emerging in some regions of Ukraine, the country’s interim president says as he prepares to meet law enforcement agencies.
Ukraine’s MPs vote for the parliament speaker to become interim president and are given until Tuesday to form a new unity government.