KYIV, Feb 20 - The Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has announced the intensification of work on the restoration of a network of military airfields, as well as the restoration and creation of airfield sections of roads of military importance.

KYIV, Feb 20 – The Prosecutor General submitted motion to Parliament seeking its consent to detain and arrest Yevhen Bakulin, an opposition lawmaker, Parliamentary Speaker Andriy Parubiy said.

KYIV, Feb. 20 - President Petro Poroshenko signed into law a bill that supporters say will help Kyiv restore control of territory held by Russia-backed separatists in the east of the country, RFE/RL reported.

SIMFEROPOL, Feb 19 - Russia has no intention to stop trying to return the "Scythian gold" from the Netherlands to Crimean museums and realizes that the process may take a long time, Russian presidential advisor on culture Vladimir Tolstoy said.

KYIV, Feb 20 – Ukraine filed its memorandum in arbitration proceedings against the Russian Federation under the UN Convention on the Sea Law, which proves that Russia violated Ukraine's sovereign rights in the Black and Azov Seas and the Kerch Strait, the Foreign Ministry reported Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – President Petro Poroshenko spoke by telephone to United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday, the president's press service reported.

KIEV, Feb. 20 – Having issued a decree on recognition of passports and other documents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR/DPR), the Russian president has legally recognized the quasi-public groups and left the Minsk process, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov said.

KIEV, Feb. 20 – The ambassadors of the G7 member states (Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, the United States, France and Japan) have called for an end to the blockade of the contact line in Donbas and called on the Ukrainian government to carry out necessary reforms to ensure the country's energy security.

KIEV, Feb. 20 - Ukraine's military on Monday accused pro-Moscow rebels of breaking a new ceasefire deal barely hours after it came into effect, as Western powers warned Russia over its actions in the former Soviet state, AFP reported.

KIEV, Feb. 20 – Ukrainian politicians on Monday condemned a controversial peace plan submitted to the Trump administration that calls for leasing Crimea to Russia for 50 to 100 years.