KYIV, June 2 – The Netherlands wants to buy dozens more Leopard 1 tanks to deliver to Ukraine Western media reported on Thursday.

At the same time, the Dutch authorities plan to buy the tanks from their Swiss manufacturer. In order to do so, they will have to obtain permission from the Swiss government.

KYIV, June 2 – Creation of a Patriot coalition was discussed in Chisinau on June 1 with the member states of the so-called "aircraft coalition", President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said at a press conference following a meeting with his Estonian counterpart Alar Karis in Kyiv on Friday.

KYIV, June 2 – Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi is planning a third visit to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) soon after the full-scale invasion.

KYIV, June 2 – The amount of financing allocated to Ukraine by international partners in January-May to cover the budget deficit amounted to $19.79 billion compared to $32.14 billion last year, the Ministry of Finance has reported.

KYIV, June 3 - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that his forces stand ready to launch their long-promised counteroffensive to reclaim Russian-occupied territory.

KYIV, June 4 - An expected new loan from the International Monetary Fund, slow inflation and looming recession likely will prompt Ukraine’s central bank to cut its key rate next week, a Reuters monthly poll showed on Thursday.

KYIV, June 4 - Ukraine's president said he is ready to negotiate with Russia to end the war in eastern Ukraine, but he also reaffirmed his country’s course toward NATO membership -- a move strongly opposed by Moscow.

KYIV, June 3 – A draft law on the confiscation of illegal assets of officials and the punishment for the acquisition of such assets is registered in Parliament, the Ukrainian parliament's official website said.

KYIV, June 3 – If parliamentary elections were held next Sunday, four parties would surpass the five-percent barrier for entering parliament: Servant of the People Party, Opposition Platform – For Life, European Solidarity (formerly Bloc of Petro Poroshenko Solidarity) and Batkivschyna. These are the results of a rolling poll conducted by the Social Monitoring and the Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute of Social Research.

KYIV, June 4 – President Petro Poroshenko has said the diversification of sources of gas supplies to Ukraine is a matter of national security.