KYIV, Feb 25 – President Volodymyr Zelensky in a telephone conversation with Polish President Andrzej Duda discussed a joint position on Nord Stream 2, as well as the Polish initiative to allocate 1.2 million doses of the Astra Zeneca vaccine to Ukraine.

KYIV, Feb 25 - Ukraine named a former finance minister as ambassador to the United States on Thursday, a sign of its push to upgrade ties with Washington under President Joe Biden after it was sucked into an awkward role in Donald Trump's first impeachment, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Feb 24 – Ukrainian people provide the highest level of confidence in the country’s armed forces, but not inclined to trust courts and public officials that are perceived to be corrupt, a poll found.

BRUSSELS, Feb 24 – Ukrainian Week will be held in the European Parliament in early March, Ukraine's Representative to the European Union, Ambassador Mykola Tochytsky said.

During a press briefing in Brussels on Monday, he said that the European Parliament would host a number of the events involving representatives of the Ukrainian party from March 3 to March 5.

KYIV, Feb 24 – Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry asked its citizens to avoid any traveling to Italians regions that were affected by coronavirus COVID-19.

"The Ministry recommends that Ukrainian citizens temporarily refrain from traveling to the affected provinces of the Italian regions of Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia Romagna and Piedmont, where there is the greatest risk of infection," said in the recommendations of the Ukrainian ministry released on Monday.

KYIV, Feb 25 – Ten months after his surprise election to the presidency, Volodymyr Zelenskiy continues to enjoy strong support from voters, indicating that his efforts to end the war and reform Ukraine resonate well with the people.

KYIV, Feb 22 – Some UAH 1.479 billion, passed to the state within the special confiscation of funds from the criminal organization of ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, have been transferred to the bank account of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine, press secretary of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Larysa Sarhan has reported.

KYIV, Feb 25 – Funds from the preferential customs clearance of cars in the amount of almost UAH 13.6 billion are on the accounts of the Pension Fund, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KYIV, Feb 22 – Problems that concern Ukrainians the most include the war in eastern Ukraine, low salaries and pensions, as well as increased utility tariffs.

KYIV, Feb 23 - Russia has illegally extracted 7.2 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas from Crimea after annexing the peninsula in March 2014, Svitlana Nezhnova, the board director at Chornomornaftogaz, said Friday.