KYIV, Aug. 24 - Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and is in serious condition with a fever, Reuters reported Sunday citing her party’s spokeswoman.

KIEV, Aug. 23 – Ukraine is beginning visa-free travel negotiations with Canada, Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko said.

KIEV, Aug. 23 – The National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP) has not established facts of unauthorized interference in the operation of the public register of persons authorized to perform public or local government functions.

KIEV, Aug. 23 – Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has discussed the possibility of extraditing Eduard Stavytsky and Dmytro Tabachnyk, former ministers under deposed President Viktor Yanukovych, with Israeli authorities.

KIEV, Aug. 24 - President Petro Poroshenko, in an interview with CNN on Wednesday, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants "the whole Ukraine" to be part of the "Russian Empire."

KIEV, Aug. 22 – Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin expects the UN International Court of Justice to start hearing Kiev's claim against Russia regarding violations of the International Convention for the Suppression of Financing of Terrorism before the end of 2016.

KIEV, Aug. 22 – Some UAH 380 million will be foreseen in the 2017 draft national budget for the completion of Okhmatdyt National Children's Specialized Hospital, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said in his Facebook videoblog.

KIEV, Aug. 22 – The fully functioning launch of electronic declaration before September 1 would lift one of the obstacles on Ukraine's way to receiving the third tranche of the IMF-funded Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program and would be grounds for receiving these funds in September, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

KIEV, Aug. 22 – The development of transplantology in Ukraine is expected to pick up after the adoption of the law on transplantation prompts Ukrainian pharmaceutical manufacturers to organize production of immunosuppressors that patients have to take after transplantation, said Iryna Sysoyenko, deputy head of the parliamentary healthcare committee.

KIEV, Aug. 23 – Ukraine must start a dialog with the United States on joint production of weapons and ammunition on its territory and it would be beneficial both for Ukraine and the United States, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly said.