KYIV, Sept. 3 - Ukraine has begun joint military exercises with 10 NATO countries in western Ukraine amid ongoing tensions with Russia over Moscow's illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russia-backed separatists, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Sept. 3 – Russian President Vladimir Putin conspicuously blundered during the 2015 Minsk Agreement talks to admit that Russian troops have been fighting in Ukraine, according to a book by former French President Francois Hollande.

KYIV, Sept 4 - The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is making an inventory of bilateral agreements with Russia and planning further steps in the near future, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

KYIV, Sept. 4 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is calling for the nullification of a Ukrainian court ruling that gives authorities access to nearly 1 1/2 years of cell-phone data from an RFE/RL investigative reporter, saying the decision violates Ukraine’s own laws and Kyiv’s commitments to a free press.

KYIV, Sept 4 – Ukraine has made a voluntary contribution to the budget of the Council of Europe in the amount of $400,000 to support the organization in difficult times of financial blackmail on the part of Russia, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

KYIV, Sept 4 – Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and his Turkish counterpart Suleyman Soylu signed an agreement on cooperation in combating terrorism, illegal trafficking of migrants and human trafficking, cybercrime, etc. in Ankara on September 4.

KYIV, Sept 5 – Ukraine expressed concerns over an unknown chemical substance that had apparently leaked from an industrial facility in Crimea that may be poisonous to the environment, officials said Wednesday.

KYIV, Sept. 5 - The United States, the European Union, and international media watchdogs have expressed concern over a Ukrainian court ruling that gives the authorities access to the cellphone data of an RFE/RL investigative reporter spanning a period of 17 months.

KIEV, Sept. 5 - Ukrainian army positions in Donbas came under 20 attacks in the past 24 hours, the press center of the army operation staff said on Facebook on Monday morning.

KIEV, Sept. 5 - An SOS signal was received at 11:25 p.m. on Sunday night from the Mehmet Unlu vessel, where people were screaming and calling out for help, Andriy Stavnitser, the chief of TIS terminal group, a chain of port terminals operating at Yuzhny port (30 km from Odessa), wrote on his Facebook page.