KYIV, June 11 - Ukraine's football association said Friday it had managed to agree on a compromise with UEFA over Euro 2020 kits that feature patriotic slogans and sparked Russia's ire, but European football's governing body said nothing had changed in practice.

"We've managed to reach a victorious compromise with UEFA!" the association chief, Andriy Pavelko, said in a statement on Facebook, describing the negotiations as "extremely tough".

KYIV, June 11 – Incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky would receive the greatest support in the presidential elections if they were held in early June, collecting 30.6% of the votes of Ukrainians who decided on their choice, according to the results of a sociological study conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) on June 1-7.

KYIV, June 11 – Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy Luigi Di Maio, who is in Kyiv on an official visit, and discussed with him topical issues of trade, economic and investment cooperation, as well as cooperation in the field energy and infrastructure, according to a government portal on Thursday.

KYIV, June 13 - President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday thanked leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) nations for their support after they urged Russia to withdraw troops from the Ukrainian border.

Zelensky in a tweet on Sunday said he was grateful to the G-7 leaders for voicing their support of his country in the conflict.

KYIV, June 13 – Ukraine is preparing for a possible launch of the new three-four-year program of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the end of 2019, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Oleksiy Honcharuk said.

KYIV, June 13 - U.S. officials in charge of an international database on geographic names have agreed to change the official spelling of the Ukrainian capital from the commonly used Russian variant, Kiev, to Kyiv -- a spelling that more accurately reflects its spelling and pronunciation in the Ukrainian language, RFE/RL reported.

WASHINGTON, June 13 - An associate of Paul Manafort in 2012 proposed recruiting former politicians from Belgium, Germany and Spain for a covert lobbying effort on behalf of the Ukrainian government, Politico reported Wednesday.

KIEV, June 9 – President Petro Poroshenko signed a law that establishes a mandatory 75% share of Ukrainian-language content on television.

Parliament passed the bill on May 23.

UZHGOROD, June 12 – With the implementation of visa-free travel to the European Union countries, Kiev now has more arguments for the prospective membership in the European Union, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, June 12 – Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has called for a system of pre-notification for Russian citizens wishing to visit Ukraine.

"Visas are a thing of the past. Firstly, we want to get used to biometric passports and move to a system under which people only travel using biometric passports.