KYIV, June 6 – The explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in Kherson region does not yet directly threaten the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), but may eventually lead to problems in the ZNPP water cooling system, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told the agency's board of governors on Tuesday.

KYIV, June 7 – Ukraine is working to create an effective organizational structure for demining, planning to create a donor coordination platform, the Economy Ministry said on Wednesday following a meeting between First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko and representatives of Japan and the UN.

KYIV, June 7 – The World Bank has downgraded its forecast for the growth of Ukraine's gross domestic product for 2023 to 2% from 3.3%, which it predicted in January this year.

KYIV, June 7 - Authorities rushed to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops and supply drinking water to areas flooded by a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, in a growing humanitarian and ecological disaster along a river that forms part of the front line in the 15-month war, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, June 7 - The U.S. military has begun training Ukrainian forces on the sophisticated multiple rocket launchers that the Biden administration agreed last week to provide, The Associated Press reported. The Pentagon said the training is going on at a base in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.

KYIV, June 7 – The fighting has intensified in the city of Sieverodonetsk over the past 24 hours with Russian troops making limited advances and Ukrainian fighters holding approximately a half of the city, officials said Tuesday.

KYIV, June 7 – President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that while some western sanctions had already dealt a severe blow to the Russian economy, they "have not really influenced the Russian position."

KYIV, June 8 – The government of Ukraine is setting up a team to prepare for the next heating season, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his traditional video address on Tuesday night.

KYIV, June 8 – Ukraine on Wednesday rejected as not credible a joint proposal by Russia and Turkey to unblock exports of grain via the Black Sea, while the European Union had accused Moscow of “weaponizing” food supplies to gain an advantage in the war.

KYIV, June 8 - President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Wednesday that fighting for the city of Sieverodonetsk may decide the outcome of the war in the east of the country.