KIEV, June 3 ??“ A group of Russian citizens may have been actively involved in the protests trying to prevent a NATO-Ukrainian military exercise in Crimea, a top security advisor to President Viktor Yushchenko said Friday.

KYIV, May 2 – Non-operational F-16s are being pulled from the US boneyard and sent to Ukraine to support the growing fleet of European-donated fighters, the American publication The War Zone reports, citing sources in the US Air Force.

KYIV, May 2 – The Business Activity Expectations Index (BAEI), calculated by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on a scale from 0 to 100, dropped by 2.4 points in April to 49.4 – 2.9 points below its April 2024 level of 52.3, the regulator reported on its website.

PRAGUE, May 4 - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that a ceasefire with Russia in its more than three-year-old war was possible at any moment and called on Kyiv's allies to apply greater pressure on Moscow to put the measure in place, Reuters reported.

KYIV, May 1 - The Trump administration will approve its first sale of military equipment to Ukraine since Donald Trump took office, in an indication that the minerals deal signed by the two countries this week may open a path to renewed weapons shipments.

KYIV, May 3 – The deficit of Ukraine's state budget in April narrowed to UAH 32.6 billion from UAH 59.2 billion in March, including the deficit of the general fund to UAH 65.6 billion from UAH 72.6 billion, the Ministry of Finance reported on its website on Tuesday.

KYIV, May 3 - Russia claimed it foiled an attack by Ukrainian drones on the Kremlin early Wednesday, calling it an unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin and promising retaliation for what it termed a “terrorist” act. The Ukrainian president denied it, saying: “We don’t attack Putin or Moscow,’ The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, May 2 – Denmark will allocate the largest aid package for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the amount of DKK 1.7 billion (about $250 million), the Danish Ministry of Defense reports, citing the decision of the Foreign Policy Committee of May 2.

KYIV, May 2 – From May 2 to June 5 this year, the European Commission banned the import of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower seed originating from Ukrainian to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. The decision is published on the European Commission's website.

KYIV, May 4 – Preliminary data showed that, as of May 1, Ukraine's international reserves stood at $35.94 billion, the highest level in the past 11 years (last time the reserves exceeded this level in August 2011), the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has reported.