WASHINGTON, Feb 7 - In a flurry of diplomacy across two continents, President Joe Biden met with Germany’s new leader Monday and vowed the crucial Nord Stream 2 Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline will be blocked if Russia further invades Ukraine, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, Feb 4 – Socio-economic problems in Ukraine may lead to protests, according to the results of a nationwide survey conducted by sociologists of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation together with the Center for Political Sociology on November 3-16, 2020.

KYIV, Feb 5 – Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal will travel to Brussels on February 11 for the EU-Ukraine Association Council meeting to discuss security and economic issues and plans for continued cooperation, the government said in a statement.

KYIV, Feb 5 - Ukraine is set to receive 12 million doses of coronavirus vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Novavax, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office announced on Friday, RFE/RL reported.

NEW YORK, Feb. 6 -- A U.S. figure skater whose family comes from Ukraine has won the right to compete in the U.S. National Synchronized Skating Championships.

KYIV, Feb 6 – President Petro Poroshenko has said that the subsidy monetization program for Ukrainian households has been launched.

"We are launching the long-awaited system of monetization of subsidies, namely, cash payments to low-income groups of the population. The average amount of payments will be UAH 1,500," Poroshenko said at a meeting devoted to the introduction of monetization of subsidies in Kyiv on Wednesday.

KYIV, Feb 7 - Ukraine’s parliament has passed constitutional amendment to commit to join NATO and the European Union.

Massive protests in Ukraine in 2013 centered on the then-president’s refusal to sign an association agreement with the EU, which was seen as a betrayal of the aspirations of many Ukrainians.

KYIV, Feb 7 - Ukrainian lawmakers have voted to ban Russian citizens from serving as election monitors in the country.

BAKU, Feb. 7 – Ukraine and Azerbaijan have decided not to allow goods made on the territories that are not under control of Baku or Kiev to enter their territories without permits from official authorities, Ukrainian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Oleksandr Mischenko told Interfax-Azerbaijan.

KIEV, Feb. 6 – Ukraine's Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk has confirmed the country's plans to work on foreign credit markets in 2017.

"We plan to work on the foreign credit market in 2017, but not to attract a large amount of money. We will do this to send a signal that we are present on foreign credit markets," he said during a press conference in Kiev on Monday.