KIEV, Aug 26 – Ukraine joined the world’s major powers and NATO on Tuesday in condemning Russia for its unilateral decision to recognize Georgia’s separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.

KIEV, Aug. 23 – Interest rates on mortgage credits in hryvnias given by commercial banks through re-financing by the State Mortgage Institution, could by 2009 fall to 10%, while at present they are around 12%, according to the head of the State Mortgage Institution, Kirill Shevchenko.

KIEV, Aug. 24 - Honor guards marched across a main Kiev square, bells tolled and religious leaders led prayers for the country Friday as Ukraine marked the 16th anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union.

SIMFEROPOL, Aug. 26 - A man and a woman were found dead in their car after a fire swept the Alupka forestry on the southern coast of Crimea, the Crimean government reported Sunday.

KIEV, Aug. 26 – District election commissions will have to verify whether a voter had the right to cast a ballot at home in order to prevent election fraud, a newspaper reported Sunday, citing a court ruling.

KYIV, July 24 – Three warehouses with grain were destroyed in the port of Reni in an invaders' attack by Iranian strike drones of the Shahed type, according to the website of the Reni-Odesa. Our Common Home publication, citing the head of the Reni community, Ihor Plekhov.

KYIV, July 25 – The temporarily occupied Zaporizhia NPP has transferred power unit No. 4 to a hot shutdown mode despite the requirements of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine and National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom, the company's press service said on Monday evening.

KYIV, July 25 – A number of donor countries will provide $244 million to Ukraine for the purchase of special equipment for humanitarian demining, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko has said.

KYIV, July 25 - Ukrainian armed forces have been making gains around the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, especially to the south, The War Zone reported on Tuesday citing Ukrainian and Russian military sources.

KYIV, July 25 – During his first visit to Equatorial Guinea, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba and the country's leadership discussed Russia's withdrawal of the Black Sea Grain Initiative and its implications for food security in Africa.