WASHINGTON, Feb 24 - President Joe Biden on Thursday announced another round of sanctions targeting Russia and the mobilization for more U.S. troops to Germany after President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine.

KYIV, Feb 24 - Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides in an attack that could rewrite the global post-Cold War security order.

BRUSSELS, Feb 24 – President of the European Council Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen urged Moscow to immediately stop the military offensive in Ukraine.

KYIV, Feb 24 – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the President Volodymyr Zelensky, has begun the procedure for breaking off diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation in accordance with international law.

KYIV, Feb 24 - Ukraine launched a COVID-19 vaccination campaign Wednesday in hopes of halting the spread of the coronavirus that has put a significant strain on the country’s teetering health care system, the AP reported.

KYIV, Feb 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) as part of a pilot project in 2018 issued little more than UAH 5,000 of electronic hryvnia (e-hryvnia), and at present the central bank continues studying the possibility of issuing e-hryvnia in the future, NBU Governor Yakiv Smolii said Friday.

KYIV, Feb 24 – Health Minister Zoriana Skaletska said Monday that more than 70 people evacuated from the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China and quarantined at a special facility in Ukraine are doing fine.

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.