KYIV, July 23 - A prominent Ukrainian anti-corruption campaigner said Thursday his house had been set on fire and condemned authorities for failing to protect activists, AFP reported.

KYIV, July 23 - The West has hailed Ukraine’s parliamentary election as a catalyst for major reform, and Moscow tentatively welcomed it as a “vote of hope”, as the country’s president Volodymy Zelenskiy and his allies pondered candidates for key posts, the Irish Times reported.

KYIV, July 23 - The United States has decided to issue $200 million to Ukraine to strengthen security and defense in the 2018 budget year, the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States reported.

LONDON, July 23 - Ukraine is preparing to ramp up its borrowing, its new acting finance minister told Reuters on Monday, with plans to restart bond issuance in euros and look at issuing debt in currencies such as China’s yuan for the first time.

KIEV, July 23 - Russian aggression is to blame for violence in eastern Ukraine, where people are dying in what should be seen as a "hot war" rather than a "frozen conflict,” Reuters reported Sunday citing the U.S. special envoy to the Ukraine peace talks said on a visit to Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, July 23 - The U.S. Department of Defense intends to supply long-range radar to Ukraine to help the country counter artillery attacks by Russia-backed militants, the Wall Street Journal reported, referring to a representative of the department.

KIEV, July 23 - The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine held talks over the conflict in east Ukraine, with all sides calling for the full implementation of a ceasefire deal, the French presidency said, AFP reported.

KIEV, July 21 - The threat of a technical default exists but it is inappropriate to talk about a default in Ukraine in general, according to the president's representative in the Cabinet of Ministers Oleksandr Danyliuk.

KIEV, July 22 – The Netherlands will present a report on an investigation into the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) crash in eastern Ukraine at an August 10 closed session of an international task force investigating the crash but will not publish it for the time being, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Olena Zerkal said.

WASHINGTON, July 22 – U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Milley has said he supports providing Ukraine with lethal defensive equipment to counter the artillery of Russian-backed rebels.