KIEV, July 13 – A delegation of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund has been carrying out an independent assessment of the reform of the State Fiscal Service since the start of this week, the Finance Ministry reported.

KIEV, July 13 - Deputy Health Minister and Health Ministry office head Roman Vasylyshyn, who was recently suspended after being presumably arrested red-handed while accepting a bribe, has been freed on a bail of UAH 2 million, Kiev prosecutor's office press secretary Nadia Maksymets said.

KIEV, July 13 – Russia-backed militants have steeply intensified shelling of Ukrainian army positions in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, triggering concerns the confrontation may escalate and bury the Minsk peace deal.

KIEV, July 10 – National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov said that the creation of an international tribunal to investigate the MH17 disaster, in which a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 with the flight number MH17 was downed in Donbas in July 2014, is a joint initiative of Ukraine, the Netherlands, Australia and Malaysia.

KIEV, July 10 – The Crimean Tatars must be involved in all international meetings related to the future of Crimea and its people, Crimean Tartar leaders said.

WASHINGTON, July 13 - Ukraine will double grain exports within the next three years, Oleksiy Pavlenko agriculture minister wrote in an article for The Wall Street Journal.

KIEV, July 11 - President Petro Poroshenko has held a phone conversation with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, the press service of the head of state has reported.

KIEV, July 13 - Russia threatened Ukraine on Sunday with "irreversible consequences" after a Russian man was killed by a shell fired across the border, while Kiev said Ukrainian warplanes struck again at separatist positions in the east of the country, inflicting big losses, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 11 – The losses of Ukraine's national budget in the form of non-received taxes and duties due to warfare in Donetsk and Luhansk regions continue growing, in particular, in June they were 1.5 times up on May, said Ihor Bilous, head of the State Fiscal Service.

KIEV, July 12 – Iraq has not paid yet for armored personnel carriers supplied to it by the Kharkiv-based state-owned Malyshev plant, according to Kharkiv Governor Mykhailo Dobkin.