KYIV, Aug 10 – In connection with the deterioration of the epidemic situation, the government of Ukraine introduces the daily work of the State Commission on Manmade Disaster and Emergency Response, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said.

KYIV, Aug. 10 - Ukrainian prosecutors said they had searched a vessel in the Black Sea port of Kherson on Saturday as part of an investigation into a suspected illegal delivery of fuel to the Russian navy in annexed Crimea in 2015, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, Aug. 9 - Two-thirds (62%) of Russian citizens interviewed as part of a recent survey described the situation in the east of Ukraine as tense; another 20% called it critical and explosive (the highest percentage of respondents backing this view since October 2015), the Levada Center told Interfax.

KIEV, Aug. 11 – The Russian military is strengthening its positions in areas near Donetsk in the direction of Sloviansk, as well as rotating intelligence units, the Main Directorate of Intelligence (MDI) for Ukraine's army has said.

KIEV, Aug. 11 - Vladimir Putin summoned his security council and the Russian Navy announced war games in the Black Sea a day after the Russian president accused Ukraine of trying to provoke a conflict over Crimea, which Moscow seized and annexed in 2014, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Aug. 10 – Ukraine will receive an additional $500 million from the United States government to finance the training of its military, the Ukrainian parliamentary committee for foreign affairs said in a statement obtained by Interfax.

KIEV, Aug. 10 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has promised to organize an inspection of the work of the current members of the government in September, based on the results of which he will suggest that the parliamentary collation replace ministers who fail to perform their duties.

KHERSON, Aug. 11 – As of early August, 20,844 Crimean residents have been forced to move from Russian-occupied Crimea and Sevastopol and to settle on mainland Ukraine, the government says.

KIEV, Aug. 11 - Ukraine will online get data of ultrahigh resolution satellite monitoring from the European system of Earth remote sensing Pleiades, according to a contract for the supply of satellite data signed with European Airbus Defense & Space, Oleh Urusky, head of the National Space Agency of Ukraine, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 11 - Mounting attacks on government-held areas of eastern Ukraine violate a February peace deal with pro-Russian separatists, the EU said Tuesday, AFP reported.