WASHINGTON, July 21 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was invited to visit the White House for a meeting with President Joe Biden on Aug. 30, the AP reported Wednesday citing White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

WASHINGTON, July 21 – The U.S. and Germany reached an agreement to allow completion of the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a thorny, long-standing point of contention between the allies, CNBC reported Wednesday.

KYIV, July 21 - A stand-off in Ukraine has ended with security forces freeing 10 hostages from a bus in the city of Lutsk and detaining the gunman, after a bizarre intervention by the president, BBC reported.

KYIV, July 19 – Election campaign accounts of parties taking part in early parliamentary elections received deposits of UAH 622.2 million by July 10, according to an interim analysis conducted by NGO CHESNO based on financial reports of political forces given to the Central Election Commission.

KYIV, July 19 – Ukraine's new prosecutor general will be nominated already after the new parliament forms a majority, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said.

KYIV, July 19 – President Volodymyr Zelensky, by his decrees, has dismissed Ukrainian ambassadors in 11 countries.

Presidential decrees dismiss Valeriy Chaly from the post of Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., to Antigua and Barbuda and Trinidad and Tobago (part-time), Ambassador of Ukraine to Armenia Petro Lytvyn, and Ambassador to Turkmenistan Valentyn Shevaliov, the official website of the president reported.

KYIV, July 21- President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s party is set to convincingly win a snap parliamentary election, consolidating his political power, BBC reported Sunday.

KYIV, July 19 – The Security Service of Ukraine has launched an investigation into the "garbage blockade" of Lviv, which began with the arson of the city garbage dump in May 2016 and lasted more than a year, said Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy.

KIEV, July 21 - A threat of a full-scale war with Russia today is seen by 52% of Ukrainians, 34% see no such threat, and 45% would vote for Ukraine's NATO membership if there were a referendum, according to a poll conducted by the Sofia Center for Social Studies.

KIEV, July 20 – Saudi Arabia is looking at the possibility of buying NATO-standard high-precision anti-tank weapons developed by the state design bureau Luch based in Kiev.