BRUSSELS, Feb 25 - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday the alliance was deploying parts of its combat-ready response force and would continue to send weapons to Ukraine, including air defenses, while saying that Russia was trying to topple the Ukrainian government, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Feb 26 - President Volodymyr Zelensky has remained defiant as Russian attacks continue in the country’s capital of Kyiv.

The Ukrainian leader has released a number of videos on social media addressing his citizens to assure them that he has no plans to leave the country. The latest Zelensky video was posted on Saturday morning, Yahoo News reported.

KYIV, Feb 26 – Even the rapid spread of the new coronavirus in other countries will not have a significant impact on the Ukrainian economy, Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture Tymofiy Mylovanov believes.

KYIV, Feb 26 – Parliament is working on a healthcare strategy for Ukraine that will be in effect through until 2030, Head of the parliamentary committee on national health, medical care and medical insurance, MP Mykhailo Radutsky said.

MOSCOW, Feb 27 - A former senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Ukraine will never be able to regain control over the separatist-controlled east, AP reported Wednesday.

KYIV, Feb 26 – Pensioners living on minimum pension will receive compensation for unpaid indexing for 2015-2016 in the amount of UAH 2,410 in March and April, President Petro Poroshenko has said.

KYIV, Feb 26 - Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko has called for the impeachment of President Petro Poroshenko, accusing him of treason after a media outlet aired a program alleging that people close to the incumbent enriched themselves by smuggling spare parts for military equipment from Russia.

KYIV, Feb 27 – Deputy Prime Minister, Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Minister Hennadiy Zubko after a meeting with the head of the European Parliament's delegation in the Parliamentary Association Committee (PAC) for Ukraine and the European Union (EU) Dariusz Rosati in Brussels noted the importance of the EU support of Ukraine in infrastructure projects in the Azov and Black Sea region, the press service of the deputy prime minister has reported.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 - The United States has reaffirmed that it will maintain sanctions on Russia until it returns control of Crimea to Ukraine, nearly five years after Moscow annexed the peninsula, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Feb 26 - The Opposition Bloc faction in parliament will not vote for Yakiv Smolii's appointment as governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), faction leader Yuriy Boiko said.