KYIV, June 22 - A Ukrainian official overseeing the country’s push to join the European Union said Wednesday that she’s “100%” certain all 27 EU nations will approve Ukraine’s EU candidacy during a summit this week, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, June 22 – In Ukraine, vaccination against coronavirus (COVID-19) has launched in organized teams with the Comirnaty vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech, according to the website of the Health Ministry.

KYIV, June 23 - The Russian military said one of its warships fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs Wednesday to force a British destroyer away from an area in the Black Sea near Crimea that Moscow claims as its territorial waters, but Britain denied that account and insisted its ship wasn't fired upon, the AP reported.

KIEV, June 21 – President Petro Poroshenko has met with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to discuss investment in Ukraine, according to the presidential press service.

KIEV, June 22 – The Ukrainian government on Wednesday approved amendments to the national program for shutting down Chernobyl nuclear power plant and transforming the Shelter facility into an environment friendly system with the action plan for 2017-2020. The government would propose to the Verkhovna Rada to endorse the relevant bill, Ukraine's Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry has reported.

KIEV, June 22 – Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has urged the European Parliament to introduce additional trade preferences for Ukrainian goods.

An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported that a total of 230 lawmakers finally backed resolution No. 6517.

BRUSSELS, June 22 - President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday boasted of robust support from the West for Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia and expressed gratitude for the European Union’s plan to extend economic sanctions against Moscow.

WASHINGTON, June 20 – Ukraine is currently drawing up legislation on a state policy of restoration of state sovereignty over Donbas, which should be open to public debate and which Ukraine plans to present to its foreign partners, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, June 20 – During his working visit to Washington, President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry discussed the possibility of supplying alternative fuels to Ukraine.

MOSCOW, June 21 - The new sanctions imposed by the United States against Russia over the situation in Ukraine are a "political gift" to Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.