TOKYO, Aug. 8 - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged countries with nuclear weapons to stick to their no-first-use commitment of their atomic arsenals, warning that the nuclear arms race has returned amid growing international tension.

WASHINGTON, Aug 8 - The Biden administration said Monday it was shipping its biggest yet direct delivery of weapons to Ukraine as that country prepares for a potentially decisive counteroffensive in the south against Russia, sending $1 billion in rockets, ammunition and other material to Ukraine from Defense Department stockpiles.

KYIV, Aug. 9 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that it was a matter of Ukraine’s national security to stay out of U.S. internal politics, particularly its election, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Aug 8 – Batkivshchyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko leads the group of presidential candidates, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Rating sociological group from July 20 through August 3, 2018.

KYIV, Aug 9 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny said representatives of the Joint Research Center of the Directorate General of the European Commission have successfully tested readiness of the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) for the new heating season.

KIEV, Aug. 8 – About two dozen people are holding a rally near the premises of Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy Affairs Pavlo Rozenko in the village of Pohreby outside Kiev; the participants were burning tires, the News of Donbas online media said on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 8 - Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Services Minister Hennadiy Zubko says he's expecting final conclusions of the international criminal investigation into the Malaysian airliner MH17 tragedy in 2017.

KIEV, Aug. 9 - Russia’s 2014 interventions in Ukraine occurred because the international community did not punish it sufficiently for its military intervention in Georgia in 2008, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, Newsweek reported.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – The Finance Ministry will seek to extend by at least 40% the payment timeframes on the government’s domestic forex debt liabilities by issuing new FX debt liabilities with a repayment period of at least one year, according to the updated memorandum between the Ukrainian government and the International Monetary Fund.

KIEV, Aug. 9 - Ukraine on Saturday named 13 pro-Russian actors and singers whose work would be banned from TV, radio and cinema, including France's Gerard Depardieu.