KYIV, June 21 - Ukrainian and Russian forces remained entrenched in eastern Ukrainian battlegrounds going into Wednesday, a day of commemoration in both countries to mark the anniversary of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

KYIV, June 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) estimates Ukraine's losses from destroyed housing, business and infrastructure due to Russian aggression at 50% of GDP in 2021, or $100 billion, according to a financial stability report published on the central bank's website on Tuesday.

KYIV, June 17 – Ukraine is moving into a zone of ultra-high temperatures and cataclysms due to weather changes, and in the next 30-40 years, the country is threatened with desertification of vast territories, which threatens the loss of biodiversity, lack of water, the spread of poverty, hunger and mass migration of the population, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources reported on its website on Thursday.

KYIV, June 21 - The Biden White House has temporarily halted a military aid package to Ukraine that would include lethal weapons, a plan originally made in response to aggressive Russian troop movements along Ukraine's border this spring, Politico reported Friday.

BRUSSELS, June 19 - European Union leaders agreed on Friday to extend until the end of January next year their economic sanctions against Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and the turmoil in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported.

KYIV, June 21 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the international community must maintain pressure on Moscow to return the land it seized from Ukraine in 2014, adding that international sanctions against Russia must continue, The Globe and Mail reported.

KYIV, June 19 – President Volodymyr Zelensky has approved a membership of the Ukrainian delegation for participation in the talks with Iran regarding passenger plane on flight PS752 of Ukrainian International Airlines shut down by Iran on January 8, 2020.

KYIV, June 20 - The Ukrainian government has approved the Economic Development and Trade Ministry's strategy for the development of the defense industry for the period until 2028.

KYIV, June 21 – "Digital gap" – the irregularity of using modern digital technologies (first of all, Internet) by various social groups – is gradually narrowing in Ukraine, according to a posting on the website of the Ukrainian Internet Association (UIA), referring to the results of a study conducted by Factum Group Ukraine in May 2018.

KYIV, June 21 – Ukraine and Hungary on Friday will hold talks to try to solve their differences over language legislation and to end Budapest’s boycott of Kyiv’s European integration and NATO ties.