KYIV, Sept 3 – The Ambassadors of the G7 countries in Ukraine stressed the need to select heads of anti-corruption institutions through transparent and politically neutral selections processes.

BERLIN, Sept 3 - Pressure mounted on German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday to reconsider the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will take gas from Russia to Germany, after she said Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with a Soviet-style nerve agent, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Sept 2 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has discussed with President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda the progress of cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union, as well as the intensification of cooperation in the field of alternative energy.

KYIV, Sept. 3 - Ukrainian lawmakers voted to strip themselves of immunity from prosecution on Tuesday, fulfilling an anti-corruption election promise by reformist President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Aug 30 – The deficit of Ukraine's national budget in January-July 2018 amounted to UAH 13.4 billion, while it saw UAH 27 billion in surplus in the same period last year, the State Treasury Service reported.

KYIV, Sept. 1 - Russia has ruled out any rapid progress in peace talks for eastern Ukraine after pro-Russian separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko was killed in a bomb explosion, AFP reported.

KIEV, Sept. 3 – President Petro Poroshenko has discussed the situation in Donbas and U.S. assistance in restoring the defense capability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with Co-Chair of U.S. Senate Committee for Armed Services Jack Reed.

KIEV, Sept. 3 – The State Emergency Service and foresters continue to fight a fire in a coniferous forest between the villages of Koblytsia and Velyky Lis in the Borodianka district of Kiev region.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - Ukraine's security services said Thursday they had detained four members of a pro-Russian group suspected of plotting to blow up a block of flats in Kiev, AFP reported.

KIEV, Sept. 1 – The Sea Breeze 2015 multinational naval exercise involving the United States and Ukrainian naval vessels will strengthen security in Black Sea Region, especially after Russia's annexation of Crimea, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.