KIEV, April 19 ??“ Russia and Ukraine appeared headed for a clash Tuesday after Russian oil companies flatly refused to abide Ukrainian gasoline price restrictions and asked Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov for protection.

KIEV, April 20 ??“ The Fuel and Energy Ministry will provide the Antimonopoly Committee with the evidence of collusion among several fuel market participants, Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday night.

KIEV, April 20 ??“ Rinat Akhmetov, the country??™s richest man, has left Ukraine and is managing his huge business empire from overseas by a telephone, Shakhtar, a soccer club that Akhmetov owns, said Wednesday.

KYIV, March 19 – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will not allow the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant in the Russia-occupied city of Enerhodar in Zaporizhia region to operate outside the Ukrainian energy system, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is convinced.

KYIV, March 20 – Ukraine's real gross domestic product (GDP) grew by just 0.5% in February 2025 compared to February 2024, down from the 1.3% growth recorded in January, according to the Monthly Economic Monitoring report by the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER).

KYIV, March 20 – The current plan for the EU to allocate funding to Ukraine under the Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) loan initiative from frozen Russian funds provides for the continuation of payments of EUR 1 billion each following month, and then in December in a single tranche the last EUR 6 billion, European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity Valdis Dombrovskis said.

KYIV, March 20 - Senior military officers from more than 30 countries across Europe and beyond met in England on Thursday to flesh out plans for an international peacekeeping force for Ukraine as details of a partial ceasefire are worked out.

KYIV, March 17 – The curfew in Kyiv will be shortened by one hour – it will start an hour later, at 24:00, and operate, as before, until 5:00, Kyiv City Military Administration said on the Telegram channel of on Friday.

KYIV, March 20 – The United States is allocating another package of military assistance to Ukraine, its volume will amount to $350 million, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday.

“Today, pursuant to a delegation of authority from President Biden, I am authorizing our 34th drawdown of U.S. arms and equipment for Ukraine valued at $350 million,” the statement reads.

KYIV, March 20 - Russia plans to hold an informal meeting of the U.N. Security Council in early April on what it said is “the real situation” of Ukrainian children taken to Russia, an issue that has gained the spotlight following the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes related to their abduction.