BRUSSELS, June 6 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has promised to hold a referendum on NATO membership -- a move strongly opposed by Moscow -- as the country embarks on a path of European and Euro-Atlantic integration, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, June 5 - Japan is ready in the future to provide Ukraine with loans for the implementation of projects for generating electricity from waste, Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Shigeki Sumi has said.

KYIV, June 6 – The Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv region opened a criminal proceeding under the article "Destruction or damage to forest areas" in connection with the dry grass fire and forest in the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant exclusion zone.

KYIV, June 6 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that he signed a request to Parliament on the dismissal of Oleksandr Danyliuk from the post of Finance Minister.

KYIV, June 6 - Parliament will vote Thursday on the creation of an anti-corruption court, a key condition of unlocking the country's $17.5 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout that's been frozen since last year.

KIEV, June 6 – The disclosure of the so-called shadow costs of the Party of Regions will not help the investigation, and the police should have been investigating it for two years now, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, June 6 – The IMF Board of Directors will decide on a new loan tranche for Ukraine after the analysis of reforms and fulfillment of commitments made in June, IMF Resident Representative Jerome Vacher said.

KIEV, June 6 – Ukraine remains committed to reforms, cooperation with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and the restoration of the national economy, President Petro Poroshenko said at a meeting of the regional groups of member countries of the IMF and the World Bank in Kiev.

KIEV, June 6 - Ukraine's state security service said on Monday a French citizen detained in late May on the border with Poland had been planning attacks in France to coincide with the Euro 2016 soccer championship it is hosting, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 3 – Ukraine's government has asked Parliament to consider the possibility of authorizing public agencies to more quickly react to cases price collusion similar to the increase of fuel price, as investigations of Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee last too long.