KYIV, Aug 6 – More than three dozen countries will take part in the Crimean Platform summit in Kyiv on August 23, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Emine Dzhaparova has said.

KYIV, Aug 10 – The Ukrainian government will temporarily close the checkpoints of entry into the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol and exit from it, Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Oleh Nemchinov said Saturday.

KYIV, Aug. 10 - Iran will not compensate Ukraine International Airlines for its plane Tehran accidentally downed in January because the passenger jet was insured by European firms, Reuters reported Monday citing the head of Iran’s Central Insurance Organization.

KYIV, Aug. 9 - A bipartisan U.S. congressional caucus has called for the immediate release of a Ukrainian journalist and blogger said to have been imprisoned on spying charges for more than a year in eastern Ukraine, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Aug. 10 – Ukrainian political leaders are misleading the West about the fight against rampant corruption by delaying a crucial reform of the legal system, a top law enforcement official said Thursday.

KYIV, Aug 9 – The Czech Republic may start supplying certain types of lethal arms to Ukraine based on standard export license procedures, Radek Matula, the Czech Repubnlic’s ambassador to Ukraine, said Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 8 – Ukraine intends to develop trade relations with Indonesia, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"First the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) took effect from January 2016…Duties on most categories of goods and services have been revoked. We have an absolutely fantastic logistics, and it takes 40 hours, not 40 days to reach Indonesia now," the president said at the Ukraine-Indonesia business forum in Indonesia.

KIEV, Aug. 10 – Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office have caught judge of Dniprovsky district court of Kiev Mykola Chaus taking a $150,000 bribe, Nazar Kholodnytsky, head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, wrote on his Facebook page.

KIEV, Aug. 10 – Tensions between Ukraine and Russia escalated on Wednesday after two Russian servicemen were killed in Crimea as Moscow’s alleged its forces had uncovered a plot to sabotage the peninsula’s infrastructure.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko will go to the United States for talks with private creditors scheduled for August 12, the ministry reported.