KIEV, July 7 ??“ The Communist Party, which staged its worst ever attack on Parliament Thursday trying to derail World Trade Organization accession bills, may have been acting to benefit Russia, at least two centrist lawmakers said.

KIEV, July 7 ??“ Ukraine was stepping up security around the country and at foreign embassies in Kiev Thursday hours after an al-Qaeda-style series of bomb blasts in London had left at least 33 dead and hundreds injured.

KIEV, July 8 ??“ From January through June, gas extraction in Ukraine grew by 0.2% in comparison with the same period of 2004, to 10.165 billion cubic meters, the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, June 10 – Ukraine’s football association said on Thursday it was in talks with UEFA to reverse a decision by the European football governing body to remove a slogan from Ukraine shirts after protests from Russia, AFP reported.

KYIV, June 10 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, members of the Cabinet of Ministers, representatives of the Verkhovna Rada committees and the leadership of law enforcement agencies discussed the implementation of the 2020 national budget amid the economic crisis at a meeting on Tuesday.

KYIV, June 10 - Ukraine’s state investigation bureau said on Wednesday it suspected Petro Poroshenko of issuing an illegal decree in 2018 related to his dealings with the foreign intelligence service, Reuters reported.

KYIV, June 7 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday urged Moscow to "rein in" separatists in Donbas after fresh clashes had claimed the lives of two of Ukrainian soldiers, raising to six the number of troops reported killed over the past week.

KYIV, June 9 - Ahead of Ukraine's parliamentary election, the party of newly elected President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has pledged to fight corruption and increase defense spending. Zelenskiy's new party is well ahead in polls, Deutsche Welle reported.

KYIV, June 6 – The number of tourists to the Chernobyl exclusion zone in 2019 could double year-on-year following the release of the mini-series "Chernobyl" to up to 150,000, Yaroslav Yemelianenko, who directs Chornobyl Tour and the Association of Chernobyl Tour Operators.

KYIV, June 6 - The modernization of the waste management infrastructure in accordance with the National Waste Management Strategy until 2030 requires more than EUR 3 billion of investments during 2019-2030, expert for waste management Mykola Doichinov has said at the conference "New Waste Management Policy is a Way to a Circular Economy" in Kyiv.