NEW YORK, Sept. 27 - U.S. envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker resigned on Friday, 1 day after the whistleblower report on President Trump and Ukraine was released, Arizona State University's student newspaper first reported and outlets including CNN confirm.

KYIV, Sept 26 – A group of nine lawmakers from the Servant of the People parliamentary faction has proposed to ban the sale of plastic bags of up to 50 mm thick and oxo-degradable (oxo-biodegradable) plastic bags in the territory of Ukraine from January 1, 2022. Bill No. 2051-1 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada on September 18 and published on Wednesday.

NEW YORK, Sept. 27 - President Petro Poroshenko has called on other countries to help stop Russian aggression in his country, saying that combating such "expansionism" is part of the United Nations' mission, RFE/RL reported.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has expressed appreciation to the United States for the decision on loan guarantees and invited U.S. companies to join the National Investment Council.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – The main investigations bureau of Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) has arrested a deputy mayor of Kherson and a deputy of Kherson City Council for taking a UAH 80,000 bribe, PGO head Yuriy Lutsenko has said.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - Ukraine should ramp up economic and anti-corruption reforms to pave the way for continued support from whoever wins the U.S. presidential election, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker said on a visit to Kiev on Thursday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 27 - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has declared Israel's support for Ukraine on the path toward important reforms, and said he was hoping for a swift and peaceful resolution of the conflict in Donbas.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Ukraine is confident in its legal reasoning in litigation with Russia in a London court over $3 billion eurobonds, but remains open to a possible peaceful settlement of the dispute if there are reasonable grounds, Ukraine's Finance Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - International organizations - UNICEF, UNDP and the British procurement agency Crown Agents - have supplied Ukraine with 86.43% of medicines purchased with funds of the national budget in 2015.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - Ukraine's Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman has announced that an investment support office will start working in Ukraine from next week.