KYIV, July 8 – President Volodymyr Zelensky has encouraged European leaders to assess the implementation of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement.

KYIV, July 8 – The "economic blockade" may be lifted from Donbas only if local, illegally seized Ukrainian enterprises are returned, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

KYIV, July 8 – The sectoral and "Crimean" sanctions of the European Union against Russia will be extended for the next 12 and six months respectively, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

KIEV, July 6 – A third of Ukrainian banks appear to have fallen victims to a massive virus attack last week, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said Friday.

LONDON. July 6 – The European Commission plans to allocate EUR 200 million to Ukraine in 2017 in the form of grants, Deputy Chairman of the European Commission for Financial Stability and Financial Services Valdis Dombrovskis said.

KIEV, July 9 – The United Nations will step up its humanitarian operations in Ukraine to help alleviate the pressure on people displaced by the war in Donbas, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said Sunday.

KIEV, July 9 - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday Russia must take the first steps to de-escalate violence in eastern Ukraine, adding that Washington's primary goal is the restoration of Ukrainian territorial integrity, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 9 – Experts of the European Union, Ukraine and Russia at a trilateral meeting in Brussels on July 7-8 agreed to hold a ministerial meeting in early September to discuss the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement.

KIEV, July 9 - Ukraine said Thursday it would offer nearly 350 state firms for sale to foreign investors at an upcoming US conference aimed at saving the war-shattered country's imploding economy.

KIEV, July 7 - President Petro Poroshenko said he is confident that transit of Russian gas through Ukraine will continue after 2019.

"I am confident that transit through Ukraine and the transit agreement between Naftogaz and Gazprom after 2019 will also be extended, as there is no other economic alternative," he said at a press conference with Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev in Kiev.