WASHINGTON, April 22 - President Joe Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday the U.S. will send badly needed air defense weaponry once the Senate approves a massive national security aid package that includes $61 billion for Ukraine.

KYIV, April 22 - Russia announced on Thursday it was ordering troops back to base from the area near the border with Ukraine, apparently calling an end to a buildup of tens of thousands of soldiers that had alarmed the West, Reuters reported.

KYIV, April 22 - The former president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, said on Wednesday he had been invited to become deputy prime minister of Ukraine in charge of driving reforms, in what would mark another comeback for the maverick politician, Reuters reported.

KYIV, April 19 – Ukraine has enough time left until June 1, when Russia will restrict supplies of coal, oil and petroleum products, to arrange alternative supplies of these energy resources, but this issue needs to be addressed, the adviser to presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky for energy, ex-member of the NCER Andriy Gerus, has said.

KYIV, April 19 – The next stage of the test of the mobile cruise missile system "Neptune" is scheduled for May this year, developer of the mobile cruise missile system, general designer of the "Luch" design bureau Oleh Korostyliov said during a working meeting with Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov.

KYIV, April 19 – Viktoria Strakhova, the advisor to Volodymyr Zelensky on banking, has defined eight priorities in the financial sector reform.

KYIV, April 22 – The European Business Association (EBA) has named seven priority steps, which business is waiting for from the newly elected president of Ukraine in the first months of running the post.

BRUSSELS, April 22 - The European Union scrambled to get a call with Ukraine’s president-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday as Western powers wondered whether the TV comic would heed their urgings to stick with reforms that they hope can anchor the country beyond the grip of Russia, Reuters reported.

KYIV, April 19 - The technological system to counter anti-Ukrainian broadcasting will eventually be launched along the entire Ukrainian-Russian border and in the south of Ukraine, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov said.

ISTANBUL, April 22 – The Holy and Sacred Synod of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of Orthodox Christians, began the process that may end up granting the Ukrainian church independence from Moscow for the first time since 1686.