HELSINKI, Aug. 25 - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has cautioned Europe against a new natural gas pipeline planned to stretch from Russia to Germany, saying it "looks like a fairly bad deal" for Europe because it further increases its energy dependency on Moscow, The Associated Press reported.

KIEV, Aug. 25 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered military exercises to examine the ability of southern troops “to deploy promptly self-sufficient forces to localize crisis situations,” the Wall Street Journal reported.

KIEV, Aug. 23 - Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch presented copies of her credentials to Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister and chief of the ministry's secretariat Vadym Prystaiko on Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 25 – Polish President Andrzej Duda said that Ukraine and Poland should join efforts to ensure energy security and develop economic and human ties based on mutual respect.

KIEV, Aug. 25 – Polish President Andrzej Duda said that Poland will support the European integration and Euro-Atlantic aspirations of Ukraine.

"We also stand shoulder to shoulder when Ukraine is going through an extremely difficult time and the complicated conflict in Ukraine's east and the occupation of Crimea.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 20 - The European Commission sent Russian and Ukrainian energy ministers a document which sets out the main points on which an agreement on gas supplies to Ukraine is needed, European Commission energy member Miguel Arias Canete said.

KIEV, Aug. 25 – Ukraine could resume economic growth if there is no military escalation in eastern Ukraine in the near future, President Petro Poroshenko stated.

KIEV, Aug. 25 – President Petro Poroshenko says that a militant offensive into Ukrainian territory is possible.

"Does this mean that the enemy has abandoned the idea of direct invasion or an offensive of the militants deep into Ukraine? No," the president said in the center of Kiev on Monday on the occasion of Ukraine's Independence Day.

KIEV, Aug. 25 – U.S. President Barack Obama has congratulated Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the Ukrainian people on their 24th Independence Day.

KIEV, Aug. 25 - The U.S. Embassy in Kiev has announced its support for the Koktebel Jazz Festival which will take place in Zatoka, a small beach resort just south of Odessa, on August 23-30, and not the festival being held in Russian-occupied Crimea.