At one point, the assailant threw explosives out of a bus window, but no-one was hurt. He also fired several shots at a police drone.

Ukraine hostage-taker surrenders with bus passengers unharmed

The babies were born to surrogate mothers in Ukraine and are due to be collected by parents from the UK and other countries.

More than 50 surrogate babies wait to be picked up from Ukraine

An official was earlier quoted as saying black boxes would be passed to Kyiv.

The plane was 'accidentally' shot down by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on January 8, killing all 176 people on board.

The announcement comes days after an official working with Trump's lawyer in Ukraine said Trump 'knew exactly what was going on'.

Iranian demonstrators defied a heavy police presence to protest against their country’s days of denials that it shot down a passenger plane.

It is “highly likely” an Iranian anti-aircraft missile brought down a Ukrainian passenger plane in Iran, two US officials have said.

The plane had taken off from Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran before hitting the ground moments later. 

Nationalist Stepan Bandera - regarded by Ukrainian nationalists as a hero - is being honoured on what would have been his 111th birthday.

The move was part of an agreement brokered earlier this month at a summit of the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France.

Gordon Sondland says he "followed the President's orders" to work with Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine.


Details of the conversation with the then newly-elected Ukrainian president show Mr Trump tried to coerce him into an investigation. 

In the back of an old van bumping along appallingly pot holed roads I witnessed a scene more in keeping with a spy novel than a news story.

Reactor Number 4 at the plant in what was then Soviet Ukraine exploded and burned on April 26, 1986.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has promised to stop the war in the east against Russian-backed separatists and immediately dissolved parliament.