BRUSSELS, Sept 22 – The European Commission on Friday announced the payment of EUR 1.5 billion to Ukraine as part of macro-financial assistance providing for EUR 18 billion.

KYIV, Sept 22 – The number of economic discussions will be growing as Ukraine is approaching the accession to the European Union, and they will mainly touch upon agriculture since 40% of the laws that need to be streamlined with EU standards are related to agriculture, Agrarian Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Mykola Solsky has said.

KYIV, Sept 24 - Russian airstrikes on Sunday killed two people and wounded eight others in southern Ukraine’s Kherson province, the region’s governor reported Sunday as the war in Ukraine entered its 20th month.

KYIV, Sept 24 – Ukraine’s massive budget deficit forecast in 2021 will be impossible to finance through domestic borrowing and will require support from the International Monetary Fund or issue of eurobonds, Morgan Stanley warned.

KYIV, Sept 23 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine seeks to obtain a clear, articulated prospect of membership from the European Union, and it is important for Ukrainians that the EU recognizes and supports Ukraine's accession hopes.

KYIV, Sept 24 – Ukraine should amend 2021 budget draft to secure at least one installment from the International Monetary Fund’s $5 billion loan by the end of the year, a central bank official said Thursday.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he authorized the release of a transcript of a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that is at the center of a controversy over whether he pressured Kyiv to investigate Joe Biden, USA Today reported.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Ukraine and the Unites States on Tuesday, as part of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, signed an agreement on the armaments trade, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry reported.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - The European Commission will propose that Russia and Ukraine sign an interim gas agreement in Berlin as a step towards resolving their long-standing row over gas prices, Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - Russia may resort to cutting off natural gas supplies to Europe via the Ukrainian gas pipelines during the winter, Andriy Kobolev, the head of the national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said Tuesday.