WASHINGTON, March 22 - U.S. President Joe Biden and his European counterparts will announce new sanctions against Russia and new measures to tighten existing sanctions during his trip to Brussels this week, Reuters reported citing national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

NEW YORK, March 22 - The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, has said it is time for Russia to end its “absurd” and “unwinnable” war in Ukraine, as the EU prepared to set up a “trust fund” aimed at helping Kyiv repel the invasion and rebuild afterwards, The Guardian reported.

KYIV, March 22 - Ukrainian forces fought off continuing Russian efforts to occupy Mariupol and claimed to have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, mounting a defense so dogged that it is stoking fears Russia’s Vladimir Putin will escalate the war to new heights, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, March 22 – The Armed Forces of Ukraine have the necessary capabilities to return all territories that were temporarily occupied by Russia under the control of Kyiv, the American television channel CNN reports, citing a senior Pentagon official.

KYIV, March 22 – On the twenty-seventh day of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the enemy continues to deliver missile and bomb strikes using air attack weapons against military and civilian infrastructure facilities in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

KYIV, March 22 – President Volodymyr Zelensky will take part in a NATO summit on March 24 via video format, press secretary of the head of state Serhiy Nykyforov has said.

KYIV, March 20 – The British strain of coronavirus was detected in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Lviv, according to study carried out by the pharmaceutical company Farmak and two research institutions.

KYIV, March 20 – Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova have come up with a joint initiative to start the format of enhanced dialogues "EU + 3 Associated Partners" within the Eastern Partnership to promote free trade and sectoral integration, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

KYIV, March 22 – The Ukrainian authorities are looking for ways to respond to a violent rally in front of the Presidential Office on Saturday that left one window broken and walls covered in graffiti, an official said Monday.

KYIV, March 19 – Ukraine and Lithuania take the same position regarding the preservation and expansion of sanctions due to the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Dmytro Razumkov said.