KYIV, Feb 21 – The constitutional amendments making formal Ukraine's strategic course toward joining the European Union and NATO have taken effect Thursday after a government newspaper published the legislation on Wednesday.

KYIV, Feb 23 - A minibus hit a landmine while crossing the border between Ukraine and the breakaway Donetsk region on Saturday, killing two civilians and injuring a third, local authorities and witnesses said, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – One of the top priorities of the aerospace sector of Ukraine in 2016 will be the creation of new rocket technologies, head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) Liubomyr Sabadosh said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – A European Commission final report on the visa-free regime with Ukraine confirms that Ukraine has taken all the necessary steps to introduce visa-free travels with the European Union, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.

KIEV, Feb. 23 - Germany and France on Tuesday urged Ukraine to root out corruption and quickly adopt a law on elections in the pro-Russian east that may help end the region's separatist war, AFP reported.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Ukraine has closed 23 border crossing points on the border with Russia, including one international, four interstate and 18 local border crossing points, the State Border Service reported.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has pledged to return Crimea to Ukrainian control.

"The Ukrainian state will regain control over this temporarily occupied territory. I am not saying that this will be a simple thing to do which we will go through quickly.

KIEV, Feb. 23 - The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) says it did not allow Crimean basketball clubs to join the Russian championships, the Ukrainian Basketball Federation reports.

MOSCOW, Feb. 23 – Kiev's ban on parts supplies to Russia will not affect the implementation of the governmental programs to re-arm the Russian army, an informed source from the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) told Interfax-AVN.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – President Petro Poroshenko and Slovakian President Andrej Kiska had a meeting in Kiev on Sunday after a march to commemorate the protestors killed during the Maidan revolution last year, and President Poroshenko subsequently invited his counterpart to return to Ukraine later in the year.