KIEV, June 8 - Ukraine's security service SBU on Wednesday released audio recordings of a Frenchman that had been allegedly seeking to buy weapons and explosives in the country for terror attacks in France.

KIEV, June 6 – The government office for European Integration has drawn up a report on the implementation of the Association agenda and the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement for January through May 2016.

KIEV, June 8 – G7 leaders have confirmed their intention to further help Ukraine to strengthen its energy security.

KIEV, June 8 - An explosion which sank a border patrol boat off Ukraine's strategically important port city of Mariupol was caused by a separatist-made bomb, the Ukrainian military said on Monday, Reuters reported.

The boat exploded on Sunday, killing one crew member and wounding five others, as it left its mooring station in Mariupol, which is on the Sea of Azov and on the edge of the conflict between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists.

KIEV, June 8 – The leaders of the G7 member states have agreed that sanctions against Russia can only be lifted when the country implements its commitments under the Minsk agreements.

KIEV, June 8 - Ukraine's defense minister on Monday accused pro-Russian rebels backed up by Moscow's forces of assembling a 40,000-strong army sufficient for a "mid-sized European state,” AFP reported.

KIEV, June 8 – President Petro Poroshenko has thanked Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for the extension of $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine.

KIEV, June 8 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk will pay a working visit to the United States on June 8-10, and Finance Minister Natalie Yaresko will accompany him on the trip, the Ukrainian government press service reported.

KIEV, June 8 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is ready to continue financing projects in Ukraine and the bank is waiting for successful reforms, head of the delegation and EBRD Director, the Netherlands, Mongolia, Macedonia and Armenia, Paul Vlaanderen said during a press conference at the EBRD representative office in Kiev.

VIENNA, June 8 — Rising prices for gas imports from Russia may push Ukraine to draw its International Monetary Fund loan down faster to protect its foreign exchange reserves, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov told Reuters on Wednesday.