KYIV, May 12 - US president Donald Trump’s personal lawyer has cancelled plans for a controversial trip to Ukraine, but his bid to drag the embattled country into the crossfire of American politics has unnerved Kyiv at a time of transition, the Irish Times reported.

KIEV, May 11 – The Council of the European Union at the level of the Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries at a meeting on May 11 supported the decision on the liberalization of the visa regime with Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, May 11 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Russia and Ukraine to "make peace" following meetings with foreign ministers from both countries.

WASHINGTON, May 11 - U.S. President Donald Trump has discussed the situation in Ukraine with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin at a meeting at the White House, the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington said on its Facebook account overnight into Thursday.

MOSCOW, May 11 - A top aide to Vladimir Putin decides how the pro-Moscow administration of eastern Ukraine is run and who gets what jobs there, three former rebel leaders said, challenging Kremlin denials that it calls the shots in the region, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 10 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman will pay an official visit to Israel on May 14-16 and hold talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin and Speaker of the Knesset, Yuli-Yoel Edelstein.

KIEV, May 11 – The foreign ministers of the Normandy Quartet nations (France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine) failed to reach consensus at their Berlin meeting with Russia on what Kiev sees as key conditions for holding elections in Donbas, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

KIEV, May 12 – Ukraine has recovered 17 paintings, including works by Peter Paul Rubens, Jacopo Tintoretto, Antonio Pisanello, Giovanni Caroto, Andrea Mantegna, which were stolen by armed robbers from the Castelvecchio museum in Verona last November, State Border Guard Chief Viktor Nazarenko said on Wednesday in a report to President Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, May 12 – Ukraine has officially joined the European program to strengthen the competitiveness and sustainability of small and medium businesses (COSME, 2014-2020) with a total budget of EUR2.3 billion, according to the Economic Development and Trade Ministry.

KIEV, May 12 – Ukraine has joined the global declaration against corruption at the Anti-Corruption Summit in London, Ukraine's State Fiscal Service reported.