KYIV, July 22 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy looked set on Monday to become Ukraine's first leader since the fall of communism to command a single party majority in parliament, in what would be an unprecedented mandate to deliver promised reforms, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 22 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry announced it has agreed with Cyprus to increase taxation rates for some types of passive income.

The decision was reached after the second round of talks between Deputy Finance Minister Olena Makeyeva and representatives of the Cypriot government on July 2.

KIEV, July 22 – When the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) between Ukraine and the European Union comes into effect Ukrainian companies will have to prove the compliance of their products with European standards, said Natalia Hnydiuk, director of the government's Office for European Integration of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers.

KIEV, July 22 - Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said Wednesday he expected the International Monetary Fund to make a decision on the disbursal of a second tranche of financial aid worth $1.7 billion on July 31.

KIEV, July 22 – Ukraine could take part in Turkish defense programs on the creation of some types of armament, a source in the defense sector told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 18 – Anton Heraschenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, has claimed that the Buk surface-to-air missile system, from which a missile could have been launched at a Malaysian plane in Donetsk region, was removed to Russia last night, and militants are planning to hand over the plane's black box flight recording equipment to "FSB curators."

KIEV, July 21 – A plan on the recovery of Ukraine for 2014-2016 will include the removal of corruption, a fair court system, rehabilitation of the economy and provision for unity of the state and the restoration of peace in the east.

KIEV, July 21 - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has spoken to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot and stressed that the international police mission could be helpful in the independent inquiry into the crash of the Malaysia Airlines' Boeing 777 jet crash, according to the press office of the Ukrainian head of state.

KIEV, July 21 – The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has almost exactly established the launch site of a missile that hit a Boeing 777 aircraft of Malaysia Airlines on July 17, said Vitaliy Naida, the head of the counter-intelligence department at the SBU.

DONETSK, July 21 - A train carrying the remains of most of the almost 300 victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane downed over Ukraine left the site on Monday, after the Malaysian Prime Minister reached a deal with the leader of pro-Russian separatists controlling the area, Reuters reported.