KIEV, July 27 - Ukraine will not receive a $500 million loan from the World Bank as part of the second loan for political development project this year owing to the dissolution of Parliament, Economics Minister Anatoliy Kinakh said at a ministry meeting on Friday.

MOSCOW, July 27 – Russia’s Black Sea Fleet will stay in Ukraine beyond May 2017 when its 20-year lease agreement expires, Vladimir Masorin, the chief commander of the Russian naval forces, said Friday.

KYIV, June 29 – The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on additional payments to military servicemen, MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a member of the Holos parliamentary faction, has said.

KYIV, June 29 – The State Budget of Ukraine on Thursday received grant funds in the amount of $1.215 billion through the World Bank's Multi-Donor Trust Fund: $1.2 billion from the United States and $15 million from Finland.

KYIV, June 28 – Almost all capacity of the Turkish Baykar Makina plant will be focused on meeting the needs of Ukraine following new requests from its Armed Forces (AFU), Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said.

UNITED NATIONS, June 28 - President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia on Tuesday of becoming “a terrorist” state carrying out “daily terrorist acts” and urged Russia’s expulsion from the United Nations.

KYIV, June 29 – Some 4,835 private houses have been completely destroyed in Kyiv region due to Russia's military aggression, by the end of this year, according to a program approved by Kyiv Regional Military Administration, they plan to rebuild 280 private houses, Head of Kyiv Regional Military Administration Oleksiy Kuleba said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, June 29 – More than 5.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to their homes in Ukraine, while the overall number of IDPs remains high at over 6.2 million, according to the latest report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

MADRID, June 29 - NATO declared Russia the “most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace and security on Wednesday and vowed to strengthen support for Ukraine, even as that country’s leader chided the alliance for not doing more to help it defeat Moscow, The Associated Press reported.

KREMENCHUK, June 29 - Russian forces battled Wednesday to surround the Ukrainian military’s last stronghold in a long-contested eastern province, as shock reverberated from a Russian airstrike on a shopping mall that killed at least 18 in the center of the country two days earlier.