KYIV, Sept 27 – President Volodymyr Zelensky, during a meeting with Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France Catherine Colonna, said that he expects clear sanctions in the eights package of sanctions against Russia's aggression for the sham referenda organized by it in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

KYIV, Sept 27 – EU sanctions in response to the so-called Russian referendums in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine should hit the Russian economy, limited minor economic measures will not be enough, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.

KYIV, Sept 27 - Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday reported more success in their counteroffensive to reclaim territory in some of the very regions where Russia is staging the referendums to consolidate its grip.

KYIV, Sept 27 - President Volodymyr Zelensky told the U.N. Security Council by video from Kyiv that Russia’s attempts to annex Ukrainian territory will mean “there is nothing to talk about with this president of Russia.”

KYIV, Sept 27 – President Volodymyr Zelensky has had a telephone conversation with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seeking to boost trade between the two countries, the presidential press service reported on Saturday.

KYIV, Sept 27 – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a five-year project "Governance and Local Accountability (Hoverla) Activity" with a budget of $74 million in Ukraine.

KYIV, Sept 24 – Ukraine asked for the postponement of the Ukrainian-Belarusian III Forum of Regions, which was to be held in Grodno on October 8-9 with the participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for a year, Belarusian Ambassador to Ukraine Igor Sokol has said.

KYIV, Sept 25 – The government, which originally forecast 7.3% inflation in 2021, is in talks with the International Monetary Fund and the central bank and to reduce the forecast to about 6%, a source in the government said.

KYIV, Sept 26 - Searchers combing the area where a Ukrainian military aircraft crashed found two more bodies Saturday, bringing the death toll to 26, AP reported. One person survived.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 - Abruptly cast into the center of a political storm in the United States, Ukraine's president steered clear of the controversy Wednesday as he made his debut at the United Nations, focusing instead on the horrors of war and on his country's ongoing conflict with Russia, AP reported.