KYIV, July 23 – Ukraine has been seeking to acquire Sweden's JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets to challenge Russia’s numerical superiority in aircraft, Business Insider reported citing a U.S. military analyst who’s just returned from a trip to Ukraine.

KYIV, July 22 - Ukrainian pilots will start training on F-16 fighter jets in the next few weeks and will be flying combat missions against Russian units before the end of the year, The Telegraph reported.

This is earlier than Ukrainian officials had predicted when NATO agreed this month to set up an F-16 training center in Romania.

KYIV, July 23 - German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall, which will build a heavy equipment repair plant in Ukraine, promises to provide the Defense Forces with 300,000 rounds for Gepard anti-aircraft systems that help shoot down Shahed kamikaze drones, Bild reported.

KYIV, July 23 – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday cautioned that deliveries of the F-16s that Ukraine has long sought in its fight against Russia could take "months and months" once it's determined the fighter jets are appropriate, but America's support hasn't wavered.

KYIV, July 23 - Russia's latest strike on Odesa on Sunday killed two people and severely damaged a historic Orthodox cathedral, drawing a vow of retaliation from Ukraine's leader.

KYIV, July 24 – More than 20 representatives of the construction and consumer markets, including Olena Shuliak, Vadym Strunevych, Hanna Lichman from the Servant of the People party, Vadym Stolar and Dmytro Isayenko from the Opposition Platform-For Life party, and also self-nominees Oleksandr Feldman and Leonid Klimov win seats in Parliament.

KYIV, July 23 – Last-week reduction by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in its key policy (refinancing) rate 17.5% to 17% allowed the Finance Ministry to accelerate the reduction in cut-off rates for six-month and 12-month hryvnia-denominated securities from 17.4% to 16.73% and from 17.74% to 16.99%, respectively, at auctions on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, July 24 - The Trump administration is taking new moves to flex its diplomatic muscle to calm escalating tensions over Russia’s effort to bully Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.

KIEV, July 20 – Pension reform, privatization and the fight against corruption are key requirements for the completion of the fourth review of the Extended Fund Facility program with the International Monetary Fund, the Fund's spokesman, William Murray, said.

KIEV, July 21 – EU Ambassador to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli said the process of verifying electronic declarations of income and assets of politicians and high-ranking officials should be much faster and the National Agency for the Corruption Prevention (NACP) should find a solution to this issue.