KYIV, June 20 – Ukraine has done everything to be able to obtain the status of a European Union candidate, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday, days before the EU was due to decide on the issue.

KYIV, June 20 – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has named four steps for the West to take in order for Ukraine to survive the war with the Russian Federation.

Britain and our allies must take four vital steps to recruit time to Ukraine's cause," Johnson wrote in his column for The Times.

KYIV, June 20 – Ukraine should become a member of the Three Seas Initiative, which also known as Baltic-Adriatic-Black Sea Initiative, President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the summit of the initiative on Monday, speaking via video link.

KYIV, June 20 – Ukraine will seek to expand economic cooperation and trade with countries of the African Union, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday.

BRUSSELS, June 20 - The European Union’s top diplomat said on Monday he has written to all African foreign ministers to explain that the bloc’s sanctions on Russia are not responsible for the looming global food crisis and pledged to work out ways for exports of food and fertilizers to reach their continent.

KYIV, June 20 - Ukraine's Constitutional Court has upheld the order by new president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to dissolve Parliament, meaning the fresh elections will go ahead as planned tomorrow, Euronews reported.

KYIV, June 20 - The former head of Ukraine's breakaway independent church held a rare conference of clerics Thursday with the aim of restoring his religious leadership, threatening the future of Ukraine's new unified Orthodox Church, AFP reported.

KYIV, June 19 – Growth of Ukraine's GDP in January-March 2018 was 3.1% year-over-year, the preliminary figure of the State Statistics Service coincided with its tentative figure published in the middle of May.

KYIV, June 20 - Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko said Wednesday she will run for president in 2019, setting up a possible showdown with incumbent Petro Poroshenko, RFE/RL reported.

KIEV, June 19 – Ukraine is grateful for the European Union's consistent policy of non-recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea and extension by the EU Foreign Affairs Council of the "Crimean package" of sanctions against the aggressor state for 12 months "without debate," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on its official website.