BRUSSELS, April 23 – Ukraine will get EUR 600 million assistance tranche from the European Union without any conditions once the European Parliament and the Council of Europe formally approve it, a senior official said Wednesday.

BERLIN, April 23 - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Wednesday he would hold talks next week with his Russian, Ukrainian, and French counterparts to revive efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, RFE/RL reported.

KIEV, April 21 – Members of Parliament from the People's Front parliamentary faction and some Cabinet members have vowed their support for former MP Mykola Martynenko and announced plans to ask the court to release him against their guarantees.

KIEV, April 24 - A member of the European monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine was killed and two others were injured Sunday when their vehicle drove over a mine near Luhansk, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 21 - The Fearless Guardian exercise held at the Yavoriv test and training range (Lviv region), involving American troops, became possible thanks to $19 million in financial aid from the United States, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis said.

KIEV, April 21 – The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is ready to expand its activities in Ukraine in order to address the dire humanitarian situation in the occupied territories of Donbas.

KIEV, April 23 – Ukraine is working to restore its missile technologies, says Oleksandr Turchynov, the country's National Security and Defense Council Secretary.

KIEV, April 23 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny said that Gazprom is hampering the process of merging Ukraine's energy systems with those of its European Union neighbors, which could help start virtual reverse flows of natural gas.

KIEV, April 23 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his French counterpart Francois Hollande have discussed bilateral cooperation in privatizing Ukrainian companies.

KIEV, April 23 – Ukrainian membership of NATO will be decided by a nationwide referendum, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"The issue of Ukraine joining NATO is a fundamental one, I'll hold a referendum, let the people decide," the Twitter page of iTele French TV quotes Poroshenko as saying in an interview on Wednesday.