KYIV, July 10 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday inaugurated a giant structure built to confine radioactive debris at the nuclear reactor that exploded in Chornobyl in 1986, AP reported.

KYIV, July 9 - Vice-President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic and Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin discussed in Brussels on Monday the upcoming trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia and the European Union on the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine.

KYIV, June 9 - Ukraine has secured U.S. assurances that President Donald Trump will not betray its interests when he holds his first bilateral summit meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, Reuters reported.

KYIV, July 6 – The government continues talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the requirement to equal the price of gas for households with the higher price of gas for industry, which is one of the key requirements for receiving the new tranche from the IMF, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

KYIV, July 9 - The United States welcomes the law on Ukraine's national security adopted by Parliament and signed by President Petro Poroshenko, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said.

KYIV, July 10 - Ukraine made a much greater contribution to global security than it received in return, and is unchanged on the path of its Euro-Atlantic aspirations, President Petro Poroshenko said in an article published by the Financial Times.

KYIV, July 10 - Ukraine supporters have flooded the Facebook page of football governing body FIFA with over 158,000 comments, most saying “Glory to Ukraine,” after FIFA fined Croatia’s assistant coach for a video in which he used the same slogan, Reuters reported.

KYIV, July 9 - Participants of the Ukraine-EU summit have called for halting the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

KIEV, July 8 – Ukraine's parliament has appointed its quota of four out of nine members of the National Bank of Ukraine Council: economic theory department chairman of Ternopil National Economic University Viktor Koziuk was appointed for seven years, former director of the chief monetary and credit policy department at the NBU Olena Scherbakova for six years, member of the editorial staff of VoxUkraine website Tymofiy Milovanov for five years and former deputy NBU governor Vira Rychakivska for four years.

AKTOBE, July 8 – Negotiations with Russia on lifting the ban on Ukrainian goods transit are being conducted at a high level, Aset Asavbayev, chairman of the Kazakh Ministry for Investments and Development's Transport Committee, told Interfax.