KIEV, Sept. 24 - Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov criticized two key members of the previous government Saturday for allowing the rampant increases in social spending that had apparently played a role in stalling economic growth this year.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG (Vienna, Austria) plans to complete the purchase of Aval Bank by Dec. 15, the Austrian bank reported in a press release sent to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - The Union of Wholesale Traders and Producers of Alcohol and Tobacco products SOVAT has appealed to Parliament not to create legal problems for their industries.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - The World Bank is to lend Ukraine $106 million for the Hydropower Rehabilitation Project in Ukraine and for energy sector reform.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - A team of Korean experts arrived in Ukraine to conduct a feasibility study on improving a power distribution system in the Donetsk region, the Korean Embassy reported Friday.

KYIV, Aug 22 - A representative office of the Belgian Development Agency Enabel will open in Kyiv, it will help Ukrainian institutes and institutions restore and support the sustainability of critical and social infrastructure facilities, the press service of Kyiv City State Administration reports.

WASHINGTON, Aug 22 - The Biden administration will send about $125 million in new military aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Thursday, even as Washington works to get a better understanding of Kyiv’s incursion into Russia and how it advances the broader battlefield goals more than two years into the war.

KYIV, Aug 24 – No force on earth can overcome the patriotism of 44 million Ukrainians, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson has said in his speech to congratulate Ukraine on Independence Day.

KYIV, Aug 25 – The G7 ambassadors have agreed that the Russian Federation must immediately stop all hostilities and withdraw its troops and equipment from the captured Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and the town of Enerhodar, Zaporizhia region, where it is located, as well as return full control over the plant to Ukraine.

KYIV, Aug 25 – Portugal will continue to provide Ukraine with political, financial, military and humanitarian assistance, Portuguese Foreign Minister Joao Cravinho said.