KYIV, Aug. 5 - Ukraine has requested to purchase more Javelin anti-tank missiles from the United States, a move that is likely to anger Moscow amid a four-year conflict that pits Russia-backed separatists against Ukraine's forces, a senior U.S. official said.

KYIV, Aug 5 – The C-125 Pechora anti-aircraft missile system, owned by Russia and recently discovered in Ukraine, will be confiscated and transferred to the Defense Ministry, Larysa Sarhan, spokeswoman for the prosecutor general’s office, said.

KYIV, Aug 6 – Ukraine and Turkey will discuss defense, security and economic projects when President Volodymyr Zelenskiy travels to Ankara on Wednesday, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

KYIV, Aug. 5 – Ukraine may be seeking to recover more than $50 billion in economic damages from Russia for its continuing armed aggression against the country, Newsweek reported Sunday citing officials.

KYIV, Aug 3 – Most people living in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions controlled by the Ukrainian government oppose a plan to introduce visas on Russian travelers, a recent opinion poll by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation found.

KYIV, Aug. 6 – Ukrainian authorities should give opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili a fair treatment and let him defend himself in court instead of stripping him of citizenship, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said Sunday.

KYIV, Aug 3 – Head of the National Agency for State Service Kostiantyn Vaschenko has said salary for 1,000 new reformers in government ministries, personnel who will be lured to government jobs, will start a UAH 50,000 per month.

KYIV, Aug 4 – A Kyiv city court of Appeal ruled to seize a massive land plot in downtown that was part of corrupt deal involving a helicopter platform for former President Viktor Yanujkovuch.

The land plot was owned by Amadeus Co. Ltd, which built the platform, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – A Ukrainian delegation will go to the Netherlands on August 10 to participate in a technical reconstruction of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash which took place in July 2014, Deputy Prime Minister Hennadiy Zubko said.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – On Tuesday, a memorial to the victims of Holodomor in 1932-1933 in Ukraine was installed near the Capitol in Washington D.C., the U.S. embassy in Ukraine reported.