KYIV, Aug 20 – The decision of the European Commission (EC) on the equivalence of the digital COVID certificates of the EU and Ukraine came into force on August 20, said Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov during a press briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

KYIV, Aug 25 – Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said that the total potential losses from the occupation of the Crimea peninsula by the Russian Federation are estimated at more than $100 billion, according to the communications department of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

KYIV, Aug 25 – Parliament has approved the decision to increase the minimum wage in Ukraine to UAH 5,000 from September 1, 2020.

A total of 295 Members of Parliament voted in favor of respective bill No. 3963 amending the law on the national budget of Ukraine for 2020 during an extraordinary session on Tuesday.

KYIV, Aug 25 – Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a meeting with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Monday said Ukraine was seeking to sign the Common Aviation Area Agreement with the EU in the near future, according to a statement on the Ukrainian government's website.

KYIV, Aug 25 - The basic scenario of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Stand-By Arrangement with the receipt of two tranches by the end of this year, in September and December, is unrealistic, it is worth counting on one tranche, Head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Council Bohdan Danylyshyn said.

KYIV, Aug 25 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the next meeting of the Normandy Format, which includes leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia, may pave the way for ending the war in Donbas.

KIEV, Aug. 25 – Kiev's movement towards democracy and integration into the European Union and NATO is irreversible, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

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.