KYIV, May 29 - President Petro Poroshenko instructed a deputy head of the presidential administration to leave for Berlin on June 1 to hold talks on preparations for a meeting in the Normandy format at the highest level.

KYIV, May 30 - A dissident Russian journalist reported murdered in Kyiv on Tuesday dramatically reappeared alive on Wednesday during a televised briefing by Ukrainian state security about the killing, which they then said they had staged, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 29 - Ukraine's SBU security service on Monday accused Russian search engine Yandex of illegally collecting personal information on Ukrainians and sending the sensitive data to Russian spy agencies.

KIEV, May 26 – The Ukrainian headquarters of the trade blockade with the areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions outside of Kiev's control has announced plans to begin a new stage of activity in two weeks.

KIEV, May 26 – The total amount of bail posted by arrested former high-ranking tax officials is UAH 350 million, according to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who said the relatively small amount and guarantees given by several of those detained would be appealed in court.

KIEV, May 26 – Ex-Ukrainian Minister of Economic Development and Trade Aivaras Abromavicius has joined the board of the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs (UUE).

KIEV, May 30 – Police in Kiev on Tuesday are looking for the individual who shot dead a businessman in the city's Dartnytsky district.

KIEV, May 30 – NATO's agency for supporting and equipping member states (NSPA) has recommended including Ukrainian arms producers in the list of producers of military equipment used by NATO members and alliance partners, Ukraine's state-owned defense concern Ukroboronprom announced on Tuesday.

AMSTERDAM, May 30 – The Dutch senate on Tuesday approved a European Union “association agreement” with Ukraine, a final hurdle to the treaty, which strengthens the former Soviet republic’s ties with Western Europe and moves it further from Moscow’s orbit, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 27 - Most residents of Ukraine believe that President Petro Poroshenko should tender his resignation following the Panama Papers disclosure of his offshore interests, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).