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.

KIEV, July 17 – Latvia has called on France to reconsider its cooperation with Russia on supply of Mistral helicopter carriers due to the situation in Ukraine, Latvia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Edgars Rinkevics said.

WASHINGTON, July 17 – President Barack Obama directed U.S. officials on Thursday to do all they could to support an investigation into what caused a Malaysian jetliner to crash in a Ukrainian war zone and pledged support to the affected countries as the probe moves forward, Reuters reported.