KYIV, Oct 9 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised as “strategic” Ukraine’s relations with the UK following London’s willingness to provide a large lethal weapons contract and a £1 billion loan to help Ukraine’s navy build new ships capable of use in the Black Sea.

KYIV, Oct 9 - Ukraine is consistently implementing all reforms agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), including liberalization of natural gas market for private consumers and a transparent agricultural land market, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

KYIV, Oct 10 – Ukraine needs to strengthen its defenses after an unrest in Belarus had provoked a crackdown from the authorities that may potentially increase Russia’s influence in that country, a senior aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

KYIV, Oct 10 – Ukraine's Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons has that Russia is destroying vineyards in the Sudak Valley on the southeast coast of the occupied Crimean peninsula.

KYIV, Oct 11 - NATO notes the difficulty in implementing reforms in Ukraine amid Russia's aggression and stresses the importance of keeping in place sanctions against Russia.

ISTANBUL, Oct. 11 - Ukraine secured approval on Thursday to establish an independent church in what Kyiv says is a vital step against Russian meddling in its affairs, but the Russian clergy fiercely opposes the biggest split in Christianity for a thousand years, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – Ukraine needs to lift the ban on export of timber and settle the issue of social payments to internally displaced persons in order to get the next tranche of macro-financial assistance to the tune of EUR 600 million from the EU, new head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, Ambassador Hugues Mingarelli said.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – Ukraine's Central Election Commission (CEC) has scheduled first local election to 143 merged territorial communities for December 18.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – Ukraine's Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak and U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly (Dem. Indiana) during a meeting on Monday discussed the prospects for continuing support from the U.S.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – As part of an investigation into the possible corruption during the implementation of the Wall project a large group of people must be examined, as well as the possible embezzlement of funds, of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Director Artem Sytnyk said.