KIEV, Aug. 3 - An explosion occurred near a VTB Bank office in Solomiansky district in Kiev in the early hours of Monday. A terrorism case has been opened.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – President Poroshenko has signed the law officially establishing Ukraine's national police.

"[Poroshenko] signed the law on police, the new police," his twitter account said on Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 4 - Ukraine said it expected "decisive" negotiations this week after it sent a fresh debt restructuring proposal to a group of its largest creditors, with the threat of a moratorium on debt payments looming, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Aug. 4 - President Petro Poroshenko convened his generals Tuesday to discuss the latest failed bid to negotiate an end to clashes with pro-Russian rebels and the seven troops killed in another recent wave of attacks, AFP reported.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – President Petro Poroshenko has had a telephone conversation with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, during which they discussed the situation in Donbas and the progress of the international inquiry into the circumstances of the crash of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight.

MOSCOW, Aug. 4 - Russia announced military exercises near the border with Ukraine on Monday in a show of strength as the Ukrainian army recaptured more territory from pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Aug. 4 - Ukraine said on Monday it was in talks with Moscow over the return of 311 Ukrainian soldiers and border guards who had been forced by fighting with separatists to cross into Russia, but Russian border authorities said the troops were seeking asylum, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Aug. 4 - As deadlines near on the future of Ukraine's ties with Europe, President Viktor Yanukovych is under pressure to put aside personal animosity and let his jailed opponent, Yulia Tymoshenko, go to Germany for medical treatment.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – Hours after Prime Minister Mykola Azarov questioned coalmine safety, calling for urgent measures to improve the situation, a new methane blast killed one and injured 25 miners in Luhansk on Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 3 – Ukraine’s Higher Administrative Court rejected a lawsuit by a member of the public, Dmytro Ilchenko, against President Viktor Yanukovych, in which the plaintiff demanded that the activity of the president be declared unlawful, as he has not fulfilled his campaign promises, according to a ruling of the court dated July 21 passed to Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.