KYIV, July 14 – Denys Monastyrsky, a lawmaker tapped by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to replace Arsen Avakov as the next interior minister, said Wednesday that Parliament will probably vote on the nomination on Friday.

KYIV, July 14 - A panel of Ukrainian judges overturned a decree by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismissing the head of the Constitutional Court, prompting the president's office to say Zelenskiy would appeal, Reuters reported.

KYIV, July 10 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held a meeting with Minister of National Defense of Turkey Hulusi Akar who was in Ukraine on a working visit.

KYIV, July 10 – The Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in September 2020 will approve the monetary policy guidelines for 2021 and for the medium term, Head of the NBU Council Bohdan Danylyshyn said on Friday.

KYIV, July 13 – It is necessary to adjust the criteria according to which Ukraine places the countries on the "red" and "green" lists for the risk of the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview with the Segodnya (Today) publication.

KYIV, July 14 - Israeli Hasidic Jews will have to forego an annual pilgrimage to the central Ukrainian town of Uman this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reported Tuesday citing the town's mayor.

CHORNOBYL, July 10 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has proposed turning the Chornobyl zone into one of the points of economic growth in Ukraine.

"Today I've signed a decree that will be the beginning of transformation of the exclusion zone into one of the growth points for new Ukraine," he said at Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where the ceremony of transferring a new safe confinement will take place.

KYIV, July 11 – The European Commission (EC) is preparing an international project of assistance to Ukraine in the amount of EUR 25 million for the development of the digital economy and e-government. The issues were discussed at a meeting of representatives of the EC with advisor to the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov in Kyiv on Wednesday.

MILAN, July 13 - An Italian court sentenced a Ukrainian man to 24 years in jail on Friday over his role in the 2014 killing of an Italian photographer covering fighting between pro-Russian forces and Ukrainian troops, Reuters reported.

KYIV, July 13 - Ukrainian authorities say they are investigating a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack on a building that houses the Kyiv office of Ukrainian television Channel 112, RFE/RL reported.