KYIV, July 20 – Employees of the National Coordination Center for Cybersecurity (NCCC) at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) have recorded the first attempts of a new type of DDoS attacks at the earliest stage, Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Serhiy Demediuk reported.

KYIV, July 20 – The Cabinet of Ministers intends to initiate amendments to the legislation on increasing penalties for the clogging and pollution of water bodies protected shoreline belts, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

KYIV, July 20 - Sea Breeze, naval drills led by the U.S. and Ukraine kicked off on Monday in the Black Sea, while Russia called for a series of nearby snap naval drills, U.S. Naval Institute News reported.

KYIV, July 20 - Ukraine's new central bank governor promised on Monday to maintain the independence of the central bank and cooperation with the International Monetary Fund while continuing to cut interest rates, Reuters reported.

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.