KIEV, Aug. 22 - Ukraine and Russia's level of mutual understanding is high enough to solve questions in the natural gas sector, Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref says.

KIEV, Aug. 22 - Ukraine and China have initialed a bilateral protocol of mutual access to the markets of commodities and services.

KYIV, July 18 – Government bills on introducing amendments to the 2024 state budget regarding the financial support of the security and defense sector (No. 11417) and amendments to the Tax Code and other laws on the specifics of taxation during martial law (No. 11416) were registered in Verkhovna Rada on Thursday evening.

WASHINGTON, July 21 - President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about the incumbent’s fitness for office.

KYIV, July 22 - Ukraine's top commander said on Monday that Russian forces were staging relentless assaults to try to advance towards the town of Pokrovsk, a logistics hub in the east, and that there was active fighting taking place along the entire front line.

KYIV, July 20 - The United States has established the $100 million Agriculture Resilience Initiative (AGRI) to help the Ukrainian agricultural sector amid the worsening of the global food crisis exacerbated by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

KYIV, July 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has worsened its inflation outlook for 2022 to slightly more than 30% from more than 20% in its previous forecast and expects its return to the 5% target in 2025, the press service of the regulators said on Thursday, July 21.

KYIV, July 21 – Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has received about $13 billion in external funding, including $4.4 billion in June, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said during the national telethon on Thursday.

KYIV, July 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) estimates the economic decline in Q2 2022 at 40%. At the same time, it expects that the economy of Ukraine will shrink by a third in 2022 but will recover at the rate of around 5%–6% per year in 2023–2024 if the Black Sea ports are unblocked.

KHARKIV, July 21 - Russian shelling pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine’s second-largest city Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring at least 23 others with a barrage that struck a mosque, a medical facility and a shopping area, according to officials and witnesses.