PARIS, June 26 - French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he saw no better way of negotiating an end to the conflict in Ukraine than through the Minsk agreements, sharply differing with comments by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, June 23 - A little over one third of Russians (35%) believe Russia's relations with Ukraine should be the same as with other countries - with closed borders, visas and customs, Interfax was told at Levada Center.

KIEV, June 26 – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) proposes creating "security zones" around a number of water supply infrastructure facilities in Donbas, but the lack of trust between the parties to the conflict in eastern Ukraine hampers the implementation of this initiative.

KIEV, June 26 – President Petro Poroshenko said he expects U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry to visit Ukraine this August.

"The first agreement of the negotiations with Energy Secretary Perry is that Secretary Perry will visit Ukraine in August. We have a lot to talk about," Poroshenko said in an interview with Ukrainian television channels broadcast on Sunday evening.

KIEV, June 26 – The government must devise rules for mining amber, having given the right to Ukrainians to engage in this activity, and provide security, head of the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) Yuriy Lutsenko said.

LUXEMBOURG, May 27 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is working with Ukrainian partners to find the best way for Ukraine to survive next winter, focusing on increasing grid flexibility and restoring heating where its capacity has been destroyed by Russian strikes, associate director, Senior Banker from the EBRD Energy Team in Ukraine Olha Yeriomina said.

MADRID, May 27 - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday secured from Spain a pledge of additional air defense missiles to help fight the about 3,000 bombs that he says Russia launches every month at Ukraine in the third year of the war.

KYIV, May 27 – As a result of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, approximately 30% of the entire potential of the domestic agro-industrial sector has been destroyed, and 20% of agricultural land is under occupation, reported Viktor Kantsurak, State Secretary of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.

KYIV, May 27 – Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, together with colleagues from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Poland, sent an appeal to the EU with a proposal to expand cooperation with the defense industry of Ukraine, the department's website reported on May 26.

KYIV, May 26 – Some 43.3% of Kyiv residents believe that the situation in Ukraine is developing in the wrong direction, while 30% disagree, saying some aspects improving and some not. Some 17.8% believe that the situation in the country is moving in the right direction.