KYIV, Aug 12 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) may raise the refinancing rate in October 2020 due to rising inflation, the weakening of the hryvnia and the suspension of the International Monetary Fund's program in Ukraine, Serhiy Nikolaichuk, the head of the macroeconomic research department of ICU Investment Group, believes.

KYIV, Aug 12 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has recommended that heads of the Main Department of the National Police and the SBU Security Service's Directorate in Zhytomyr region tender resignations over illegal amber mining.

KYIV, Aug 12 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Kyiv on August 18-20 to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, The Times of Israel said.

KYIV, Aug 13 – Ukraine has not closed off a tributary of the Dnipro River, but the canal along which water was supplied to Russia-occupied Crimea. Ukraine has every right to do this, the Ukrainian president's representative for Crimea Anton Korynevych said.

PARIS, Aug. 13 - France hopes President Vladimir Putin will respond positively to moves by his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy to end the five-year-old conflict in the country's east, AFP reported Tuesday citing a French presidency official.

KYIV, Aug. 12 – Two convoys of Russian military trucks were recorded of recently entering and leaving Ukraine, underscoring Moscow’s continued involvement into a conflict in Donbas, international monitors reported.

GENEVA, AUG. 13 – More than 580,000 retired and elderly people in the conflict zone in Donetsk and Luhansk regions do not have access to basic service and pension benefits, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported Sunday.

KYIV, Aug 10 – The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv has granted permission for a special pre-trial investigation in absentia against former First Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov in the case on the failure of Ukrtelecom and ESU shareholders to meet the privatization conditions.

KYIV, Aug 11 - The Ukrainian government has approved the purchase of legal services to represent the country's interests in court in the case of "freezing" EUR15 million guarantees for holding the Eurovision 2017 international song contest.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 – Washington continues to support the investigation into the causes of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash in Ukraine's east being conducted by the Netherlands, but it still believes the plane was shot down by surface-to-air missiles fired by Russian-backed separatists, said Mark Toner, deputy spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State.