KYIV, May 11 - Ukraine’s top prosecutor disclosed plans Wednesday for the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier, as fighting raged in the east and south and the Kremlin left open the possibility of annexing a corner of the country it seized early in the invasion.

KYIV, May 11 – Ukraine’s strategic course is to become a member of the European Union and NATO, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday.

KYIV, May 11 - Ukraine has charged indicted a top opposition figure who is a close ally of Russia’s president with treason and attempts to steal natural resources from Russia-annexed Crimea, AP reported.

KYIV, May 7 – The actual mortality rate from the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease in Ukraine in 2020 is 138,507 deaths, while official statistics shows 46,737, according to the independent global health research center Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington on Friday.

BRUSSELS, May 8 – The European Parliament will vote on the proposal of the European Commission to provide Ukraine EUR 1.2 billion to combat the economic consequences of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic on May 13 on a request for an urgent procedure.

KYIV, May 11 – Ukraine seeks to receive $5 billion of International Monetary Fund assistance in 2020-21 under a new program, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said on Friday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 11 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman and International Monetary Fund's European Department Director Poul M. Thomsen have discussed Ukraine's cooperation with the IMF.

"Support is important for Ukraine in hard times, including support of the IMF.

KIEV, May 11 – President Petro Poroshenko said in a decree that Ukraine's joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is viable and ordered that head of the State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving Serhiy Savchuk to take care of filing a membership application to the international agency.

BERLIN, May 12 - Ukraine and Russia agreed on Wednesday to create demilitarized zones and implement other security measures in separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine, but they remained at odds over how to move toward local elections, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 10 - A mission of the International Monetary Fund led by Ron Van Rooden started its working visit in Ukraine on Tuesday, a well-informed source in the government has told Interfax-Ukraine.