KYIV, Dec 2 – Ukraine cancelled mass public gatherings, sports events and music concerts throughout the country until the government has more data to support the next lockdown, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Wednesday.

KYIV, Nov 29 – The European Solidarity party led by former President Petro Poroshenko is drafting a resolution banning direct purchases of natural gas from Russia, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, a parliamentarian and head of the Rada committee on Ukraine's integration with the European Union, said on Friday.

KYIV, Nov 29 - Attitude of Ukrainians to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk and Parliamentary Speaker Dmytro Razumkov as well as to actions of the head of state, the government and the parliament is getting worse, according to a sociology poll conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 2 - Russia has refused a Dutch request to hand over a suspect in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, in violation of European law, Reuters reported on Monday citing prosecutors.

KYIV, Dec 2 - Ukraine's president has promised the country's Orthodox Christian faithful they will be free to remain part of the Russian Orthodox Church after the creation of an independent Ukrainian church, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, Nov 30 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has said that the banking system of Ukraine has enough liquidity and there is no dangerous outflow of funds from the country's banking system two days after the introduction of martial law.

KYIV, Dec 2 – Ukraine called on Germany and its allies to boost their naval presence in the Black Sea to deter Russia from further aggression in the region, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, Nov 29 - The incident which took place in the Kerch Strait on November 25 closes all political discussion about whether Kyiv should denounce its 2003 agreement with Russia on cooperation in the use of the Sea of Azov and the strait, Yevhen Marchuk, Ukraine's representative in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) which mediates the Donbas conflict, said.

KYIV, Nov 29 – The closing of the Bosphorus Strait for Russian ships could be an adequate response to Russia's violation of international maritime law in the Sea of Azov, Ukraine's Naval Forces Commander Ihor Voronchenko has said.

KYIV, Nov 30 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a meeting on Thursday discussed the policy of sanctions against the Russian Federation and the situation with the Nord Stream 2 project.