WATCH: Poles Run To Kyiv's Maidan From Warsaw
A group arrived in Kyiv on foot after a nearly 700 kilometer run from Warsaw to mark the first anniversary of Ukraine's Maidan protest movement. Ukrainians welcomed the 28 Polish journalists, activists, and others as they jogged into Kyiv's Independence Square. During the long journey, several teams took turns running while others rested. The organizers said the "Run to the Maidan" is intended to honor Ukrainian activists' bravery and commitment to European values. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
WATCH: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Russian aggression in Ukraine was unacceptable and had met a unified response from the international community. Speaking during a visit to Kyiv on November 21, Biden said Putin had not kept to a peace deal signed in Minsk, and needed to withdraw Russian forces from Ukraine. Russia denies its troops are in the country. (Reuters)
From RFE/RL's News Desk:
Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko says Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian Air Force pilot who is in Russian custody, will represent her country's parliament in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who heads the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party, made the statement at a November 21 ceremony in which pro-Western parties in the Verkhovna Rada initialed a coalition agreement.
Savchenko, a member of Tymoshenko's party, is being held in Russia on charges of complicity in the deaths of two Russian journalists during the conflict between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Savchenko says she was captured by separatists on June 18 and illegally transferred to Russian custody in July.
Russian Investigators have said she was detained on Russian soil.
She won a seat in Ukraine's parliament last month.