KIEV, July 10 – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sign a long-awaited free trade deal with Ukraine on Monday before paying his respects to those who fought and died in the country's revolution, known as the Euromaidan, two years ago, The Canadian Press reported.

WARSAW, July 9 - Ukraine won promises of continued support at a NATO summit on Saturday but the prospect of Kiev's eventual membership of the U.S.-led military alliance seemed as distant as ever as the West seeks a tentative rapprochement with Russia, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 7 – Members of parliament from Oleh Liashko's Radical Party and Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivschyna Party have announced a sit-down strike.

"We've switching over to another form of protest. We won't be fighting in here… We announce a sit-down strike, Liashko said while reading out a statement by the two parties' parliamentary factions on Thursday morning.

KIEV, July 7 – The European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs has voted in favor of recommending that the European Parliament lift visa requirements as soon as possible for Ukrainian citizens who make short trips in the Schengen zone, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said.

KIEV, July 8 – The SBU Security Service and the Prosecutor General's Office have detained Deputy Health Minister Roman Vasylyshyn on suspicion of taking bribes, SBU chief Vasyl Hrytsak said.

KIEV, July 9 – President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday phoned German MEP Elmar Brok and congratulated him on his re-election to the post of the chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs.

KIEV, July 10 – A possible third wave of economic sanctions from the West against Russia should target its major financial institutions and energy sector in order to make the sanctions more effective, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer said.

KIEV, July 10 - Ukraine plans to triple output of food within the next 10 years and plans to control - jointly with the U.S. - 65% of the world corn market, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said Thursday.

KIEV, July 10 - A leading Russian separatist rebel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk made a rare appearance in public on Thursday to say he would not abandon the city though he defended his decision to pull out of the stronghold of Slovyansk.

KIEV, July 10 - Ukrainian forces regained more ground but sustained further casualties on Thursday in clashes with separatists, while two Western allies urged Russia's Vladimir Putin to exert more pressure on the rebels to find a negotiated end to the conflict, Reuters reported.