KYIV, March 2 - Ukraine will seek the opportunities to join the Schengen zone in the long term, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said.

KYIV, Feb 6 - Since the start of a large-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has taken out 24 warships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, or about 33% of the fleet, the Department of Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

KYIV, Feb 6 - President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is convinced that Ukraine will soon be a member of the European Union.

KYIV, Feb 6 - The operators of the 73rd Marine Center of the Special Operations Forces destroyed the reconnaissance equipment installed by the Russian occupiers on the mining platform they seized off the coast of the temporarily occupied Crimea.

KYIV, Feb 7 – Parliament has adopted at the first reading government bill No. 10449 on amendments to some laws on certain issues of military service, mobilization and military registration.

KYIV, Feb 7 - Head of the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasyl Maliuk discussed with the ambassadors of the G7 countries the situation related to the editorial office of Bihus.Info and assured that he would not allow violations of the principle of democracy in the activities of the SBU in terms of the independence of the media.

KYIV, Feb 7 – Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has urged the European Union to boost production of artillery shells amid increasing shortages of ammunition following the suspension of military aid from the U.S..

KYIV, Jan 7 - Russia fired cruise and ballistic missiles and Shahed-type drones at six regions across Ukraine on Wednesday morning, authorities reported, killing at least five civilians and wounding almost 50 others, including a pregnant woman.

KYIV, Feb 7 – Ukraine’s economy will grow 2.9% in 2022, slowing from 3.0% growth in 2021, due to a slow increase in wages and private consumption that will curb domestic demand, Fitch Ratings said in a forecast.

WASHINGTON, Feb 7 - Some Russian defense officials have worried that a large-scale invasion of Ukraine would be costlier and more difficult than Russian President Vladimir Putin realizes, CNN reported Monday citing four people familiar with the intelligence.