KYIV, June 1 - Progress in political and diplomatic negotiations with Russia is impossible, as Russia has returned to its extremely aggressive initial rhetoric, which it uses in the domestic market, Mykhailo Podoliak, the adviser to the head of the President's Office, said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, June 3 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with heads of leading Ukrainian universities on Wednesday to seek ways of increasing their financial independence and raising salaries for teachers and professors.

WASHINGTON, June 3 - The European Union rejected any suggestion that the Group of Seven advanced economies could be expanded to include Russia and warned Washington that it could not change the rules for the group on its own, Reuters reported.

KYIV, May 31 – The reviewed program of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could be extended to include serious matters for implementation by Ukraine, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

KYIV, June 3 - Ukraine's newly elected president is set to meet with European Union and NATO leaders during a visit to Brussels this week -- his first foreign trip since his inauguration last month, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, June 3 – Ukraine praised a submitted legislation in the U.S. that further increases U.S. military support to the Ukrainian army, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a statement.

KYIV, June 1 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman believes the letter of Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk to G7 ambassadors about a conflict with the prime minister is unacceptable.

KYIV, June 1 - The jailed head of RIA Novosti-Ukraine, Kirill Vyshinsky, has appealed to both the Russian and Ukrainian presidents for help in his case and declared that he has given up his Ukrainian citizenship, RFE/RL reported.

KIEV, June 2 – The Ukrainian Army General Staff has not commented on the statements of Russian experts' regarding point of origin of the missile which hit Malaysia Airlines MH17 in the summer of 2014, but said that photo and video evidence indicate that it was launched from territory controlled by the rebels.

KIEV, June 2 – Russia no longer requires amendments to the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.