KIEV, July 20 - Clashes with Russian-backed rebels killed six Ukrainian soldiers Thursday, officials said, in the bloodiest surge in fighting along the volatile frontline in recent months, AFP reported.

KIEV, July 20 – Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has promised to do his best to solve the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet.

"It has been reported from the incident scene that Pavel Sheremet was killed by a bomb. It is a murder. I will do everything I can so that we solve this crime together with colleagues," he wrote on Facebook.

KIEV, July 20 – European Council President Donald Tusk has highly assessed the Ukrainian Cabinet's performance in the first 100 days and assured Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman that the leadership of the EU institutions fully support Ukraine on the path of reforms.

KIEV, July 20 - An award-winning journalist working for the online investigative website Ukrayinska Pravda was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev early on Wednesday morning, in what President Petro Poroshenko said was an attempt to destabilize Ukraine.

KIEV, July 20 – U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has said that the matter which unites people across Ukraine is the need to fight corruption, and the current government should produce results in this regard.

KIEV, July 20 – The Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry has suspended issuing permits to explore and produce amber, and the ministry will only resume issuing permits after a law which regulates amber production in Ukraine is passed.

KIEV, July 20 – Parliament has amended the Tax Code to reduce tax pressure on businesses.

A total of 233 lawmakers passed, at second reading, draft law No. 2004 on amending the Tax Code.

KIEV, July 20 - Ukrainian and U.S. troops launched fresh drills Monday near the war-torn country's Polish border in a bid to show unity and resolve in the face of an increasingly defiant Kremlin.

KIEV, July 20 – In September, Ukraine will prepare and file another lawsuit against Russia with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Deputy Justice Minister Anton Yanchuk said during a meeting with representatives of the European External Action Service on the consequences of the illegal occupation of Ukrainian territory.

KIEV, July 20 - President Petro Poroshenko has said that the law on a special procedure of local self-government in individual districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions adopted by parliament will come into force only after the fulfillment of a number of conditions.