KYIV, April 28 – Ukraine calls on the European Union to let Ukrainian farmers continue grain exports that will reduce the need for financial aid, Minister of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine Mykola Solsky said.

KYIV, April 27 – The Ministry of Finance is actively negotiating as part of its goal of raising $11 billion in external financing for the country's reconstruction by the middle of 2023, and considers this task feasible.

KYIV, May 1 - Russia launched its second large salvo of missiles at Ukraine in recent days early Monday, damaging buildings, killing two people and wounding 40 in the eastern city of Pavlohrad but failing to hit Kyiv, officials said.

KYIV, April 27 – President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the decision of the European Commission to remove all EU customs duties and quotas for Ukrainian exports will help all Europeans.

KYIV, April 28 - The Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA) is asking President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to include wind energy as a priority sector of economic development in the plan for the post-war restoration of Ukraine.

KYIV, April 29 – Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Daniele Franco confirmed plans to provide Ukraine with a loan of EUR 200 million, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said in an interview with Italian Corriere della sera following the recent talks in Washington at the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

KYIV, April 29 – In Ukraine, there is a gradual increase in the number of citizens who return to work, according to the results of the nationwide survey "Socio-economic problems during the war," conducted by the Rating sociological group on April 26.

KYIV, May 1 - A long-awaited effort to evacuate people from a steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was underway Sunday, the United Nations said, while U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed she visited Ukraine’s president to show unflinching American support for the country’s defense against Russian aggression.

KYIV, April 25 – President Petro Poroshenko during a meeting with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius expressed conviction that the international community should respond strongly to Russia's decision to simplify the rules for issuing Russian passports to residents of certain regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and called on the European Union to strengthen sanctions against Russia in June.

KYIV, May 1 - President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin over dwindling political freedoms in Russia and suggested Ukraine may offer citizenship to those Russians that are suffering from political oppression.