MOSCOW, June 24 - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday visited Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula Moscow annexed in 2014, a trip quickly denounced by Kiev as a violation of Ukraine's sovereignty.

KIEV, June 25 – The U.S. and Ukraine will probably by October sign agreements on deliveries of defense weapons, President Petro Poroshenko said on Sunday, days after meeting U.S. President Donald Trump.

KIEV, June 22 – There is no issue concerning a new review on Ukraine under the Extended Fund Facility on the agenda of meetings of the International Monetary Fund's Executive Board, director of the IMF Communications Department Gerry Rice said.

KIEV, June 22 – Editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Strana.ua Ihor Huzhva was detained in Kiev on Thursday evening, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said.

KIEV, June 23 – A Visa Information System (VIS) will launch in Ukraine on June 23, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported.

"VIS foresees [that] fingerprints and a digital photograph are collected from persons applying for a Schengen visa. This biometric data, along with data provided in the visa application form, is recorded in a secure central database," reads the report.

KIEV, June 25 – Kiev supports the creation of an international tribunal to punish those responsible for the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 disaster in 2014, although the country is ready to consider other options, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry charge d'affaires Dmytro Kuleba said.

KIEV, June 25 – Citizens of the six largest EU member states – Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Poland, think that in order to achieve European integration, Ukraine must get rid of corruption, oligarchs and poverty, according to a poll conducted by TNS company and commissioned by the Institute of World Policy.

BRUSSELS, June 25 - Russian President Vladimir Putin is not done in eastern Ukraine, NATO's top commander said on Thursday, cautioning that Russia has been building up supplies on its border with Ukraine and keeping its military options open, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 23 – The Prosecutor General's Office has opened a criminal case on the illegal suspension of state purchases of bulletproof vests intended for army by the officials of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine.

KIEV, June 23 – President Petro Poroshenko has expressed his hope that Russia will heed to the recommendations of the EU Foreign Affairs Council of Ministers relating to the promotion of de-escalation of the situation in the eastern regions.