BRUSSELS, May 29 – The Council of the European Union (EU) on Tuesday approved the provision of financial assistance for Ukraine in the amount of EUR 1 billion, according to a posting on the website of the Council.

NEW YORK, May 31 - US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday called on Russia to withdraw from Ukraine and acknowledge its alleged role in the 2014 downing of a commercial plane, following a recent flare-up of violence in the conflict, CNN reported.

KIEV, May 29 – The U.S. presidential administration in its draft budget for the 2018 fiscal year foresees providing Ukraine with $350 million in assistance to cover various programs.

KIEV, May 31 – Ukraine says Russia's invasion of eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea are among the reasons it cannot remunerate Russia for placing $3 billion worth of eurobonds.

KIEV, May 31 - MP Serhiy Leschenko and the editor-in-chief of the Ukrainska Pravda online edition Sevgil Musayeva-Borovik have released the archives of the shadow costs of the Party of Regions and politicians during the second half of 2012.

WARSAW, May 31 - A NATO summit set for Warsaw in July comes at a "critical time" as the alliance deals with Russian assertiveness and the threat of terrorism amid other challenges, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday, AP reported.

KIEV, May 31 - Ukrainian servicewoman Nadiya Savchenko, whose resistance to her imprisonment in Russia has made her a national hero and a potentially disruptive force in Ukrainian politics, received a standing ovation in her first address to parliament on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 30 – Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko says that all Maidan-related criminal proceedings should end up in court.

"I'd like to see all those who were involved in killings on the Maidan [pro-European and pro-Ukrainian rallies late in 2013 and early in 2014 mainly on Kiev's Independence Square and the rest of Ukraine's regional centers] to be tried in court," he said at a press conference in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, May 30 – President Petro Poroshenko on Monday had a working meeting with head of Odessa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili, during which the president praised the governor's performance.

KIEV, May 31 – Ukraine and the United States continue negotiations on cooperation in missile engine building and Ukraine still pins hopes to join the project on the creation and production of a new liquid missile engine for the United States to replace Russia's RD-180 engine, said Liubomyr Sabadosh, head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU).