KYIV, June 12 – Ukraine and Moldova have signed an agreement on the construction of a border bridge across the Dniester River near the settlements of Yampil (Ukraine) and Cosauti (Moldova), the press service of the Ministry for the Development of Territories, Communities and Infrastructure of Ukraine said on Facebook.

KYIV, June 12 – The humanitarian situation in Ukraine is “hugely worse” than before the Kakhovka dam collapsed, the UN’s Undersecretary-General Martin Griffiths said in an interview with the Associated Press on Friday.

KYIV, June 12 - Ukrainian troops are probing Russian defenses as spring gives way to a second summer of fighting, and Kyiv’s forces are facing an enemy that has made mistakes and suffered setbacks in the 15-month-old war.

KYIV, June 12 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry on June 11, 2019 placed debut six-year government domestic loan bonds for UAH 3.42 billion at 15.85% per annum, and over the half of the securities were bought by nonresidents, Finance Minister Oksana Markarova said.

KYIV, June 12 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman at a meeting with European Bank for Reconstruction and Development President Suma Chakrabarti said Ukraine's commitment to macroeconomic stability remains unchanged.

WASHINGTON, June 12 - President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was considering sanctions over Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project — which the U.S. has told European companies to avoid — and warned Germany against being dependent on Russia for the fuel, Reuters reported.

KYIV, June 12 - Ukraine's cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) removes the need to tighten monetary policy, deputy head of the central banker Oleh Churiy said.

KYIV, June 12 - Ukraine said it will investigate possible separatist activities in a team of ethnic Hungarian soccer players from Ukraine who won a tournament billed as an alternative to the World Cup in Russia, Reuters reported.

KYIV, June 11 - A round table on studying the issues of combating fraud within the framework of Cooperation Project 2 funded by the European Commission will be held in Kyiv at the end of September.

KIEV, June 11 – Lawmakers have proposed mechanisms for creating a free economic zone and doing business in Crimea.

Draft law No. 4032-a on the tax and customs oversight in the free economic zone of Crimea and the specifics of carrying out economic operations on the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine was registered by Serhiy Teriokhin, Ksenia Liapina (the Batkivschyna faction) and Vitaliy Nemylostyvy (not a member of any faction).