KYIV, Aug 14 – Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that Ukraine is working to increase the supply of air defense systems and energy equipment, with the aim of increasing the Ukrainian energy system by 2.9 GW of capacity by December.

KYIV, Aug 14 – IAEA Director Rafael Mariano Grossi assured that a team of experts would closely monitor the process of transition of unit No. 6 of Zaporizhia NPP to hot shutdown, according to a report on the IAEA website.

KYIV, Aug 14 – The United States has decided to allocate another $200 million package of security assistance to Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press statement published on the website of the U.S. State Department on Monday.

KYIV, Aug 14 - Russia launched three waves of drones and missiles against the southern Ukraine port city of Odesa, officials said Monday, though the Ukrainian air force said it intercepted all the airborne weapons fired during the nighttime attacks.

KYIV, Aug 13 – State-owned enterprise State Hydrographic Service of Ukraine (Derzhhydrografia) of the State Service of Marine and River Transport of Ukraine has initiated the creation of a marine classified region around the occupied Crimean peninsula to ban entrance of ships to all ports of the peninsula, according to a posting on the official website of the enterprise.

KYIV, Aug. 14 - A Ukrainian deputy minister and his aide were detained on Wednesday after taking an alleged bribe worth $480,000, the National Anticorruption Bureau (NABU) said on Facebook, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Aug. 14 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree offering citizenship to Russians suffering political persecution, and also to foreigners who fought on Kyiv’s side in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported Wednesday.

KYIV, Aug 13 - New anti-Russian sanctions announced by the United States in connection with a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, the UK, in March will make it possible to significantly limit the capabilities of the Russian defense industry to create new types of weapons used against Ukraine and lower the military potential of the Russian Federation, experts from the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies (CACDS) believe.

KYIV, Aug 13 - Easing inflationary pressures, moderating economic imbalances and declining debt support Ukraine's sovereign credit profile, but IMF program delays remain a source of uncertainty, Fitch Ratings has said.

BERLIN, Aug. 13 - Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Vladimir Putin will discuss the war in Syria, the conflict in east Ukraine and a disputed pipeline to bring Russian gas to Germany during talks near Berlin on Saturday, Reuters reported citing a German government spokesman.