Thirty-five miners remained trapped today after a methane blast ripped through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 65.

Ukraine’s feuding president and prime minister today agreed on a date for an early parliamentary election.

Ukraine’s former Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko was found dead today, hours before prosecutors were to question him about the killing of an investigative journalist five years ago, officials said.

MPs in Ukraine’s parliament reopened their investigation today into opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko’s mysterious illness after doctors in Austria determined he had been poisoned by dioxin.

A NATION in mourning, Ukraine yesterday began burying 83 people killed when a fighter jet sliced into a crowd of air show spectators.