UN Security Council to Meet on Ukraine Crisis

The UN Security Council will meet next week to discuss the flare-up of violence in Ukraine, diplomats said Friday.

A meeting of the 15-member council will be held on Wednesday at the request of Lithuania.

Militia forces take control of Donetsk airport (video YT: Донецкий аэропорт 15 января)

Representatives of the Donbass militia stated that they had taken control of the Donetsk airport. Ukrainian security officials have not commented on the information yet. Intense fighting resumed in the area of the airport the day before. Kiev officials said that the Ukrainian troops would not leave the airport on the humanitarian corridor, RBC reports.