WARSAW, Jan 23 - Poland said Monday it would ask Berlin for permission to send German-built Leopard tanks to Ukraine as its Western allies move to supply Kyiv with more powerful military hardware to thwart Russia’s invasion.

KYIV, Jan 23 – President Volodymyr Zelensky announced "relevant decisions" next week due to reports of corruption in a number of ministries and departments.

KYIV, Jan 23 – Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has expressed satisfaction with the results of a Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at Ramstein Air Base on Friday, January 20.

KYIV, Jan 20 – Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has confirmed that the United States will allocate $200 million in additional security assistance to Ukraine in 2021.

LONDON, Jan 22 - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has accepted an invitation to meet his British counterpart Ben Wallace to discuss the crisis on the Russia-Ukraine border, AFP reported Saturday citing a senior U.K. defense source.

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 – U.S. President Joe Biden met with his national security team on Saturday amid reports that Russia was planning to install a pro-Kremlin leader in Ukraine. One U.S. official told Fox News the reports were "deeply concerning."

KYIV, Jan 22 – Ukraine will receive the largest effect from the free trade area (FTA) agreement with Israel thanks to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin (PEM Convention), which took into force for Ukraine from 2019, Director of Studies, Head of the Center for Economic Research of the Institute of Economic Research and Policy Consulting Veronika Movchan has said.

KYIV, Jan 23 - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday she had urged President Petro Poroshenko to proceed with reforms quicker, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Jan 19 - Ukraine is holding negotiations at the level of embassies and finance ministries due to the decision by the Ukrainian government to include Estonia and Latvia in the list of offshore zones, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

KYIV, Jan 22 - Ukraine's future cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) can be discussed following the implementation of the current memorandum, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.