LVIV, Aug 18 - Turkey’s leader and the U.N. chief met in Ukraine with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday in a high-powered bid to ratchet down a war raging for nearly six months. But little immediate progress was reported.

KYIV, Aug 19 – The meeting of the Presidents of Ukraine and the United States, Volodymyr Zelensky and Joseph Biden, will take place on August 31 in Washington, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.

KYIV, Aug 19 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has lamented that the crisis in Crimea has fallen from global attention, and he pledged to "raise from the knees" the fate of the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russia seven years ago, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Aug 19 – Ukraine will seek to encourage businesses to make investments in Donetsk and Luhansk regions as part of a long-term program to develop the war-ravaged areas, a senior official said Wednesday.

BERLIN, Aug. 19 - German chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian president Vladimir Putin discussed the conflict in Ukraine as well as the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline during talks on Saturday, The Independent newspaper reported.

KYIV, Aug 17 – Ukraine's Infrastructure Ministry has developed a package of countermeasures, including limiting passenger transportation from Russia, in response to Russian attempts to disrupt shipping in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea. Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan says he expects Cabinet to approve the measures soon.

KIEV, Aug. 19 - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has made English a mandatory language for all diplomats, as well as the administrative and technical staff at the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

KIEV, Aug. 19 - President Petro Poroshenko plans to travel to Berlin late on Monday, August 24, to take part in trilateral negotiations with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a Ukrainian diplomatic source told Interfax.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – On Thursday, August 20, under the initiative of Germany, informal consultations of legal experts from the Normandy Four countries will be held in Berlin with the participation of representatives of the Venice Commission to explain the legal aspects of constitutional amendments in Ukraine to Russia.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 19 - NATO on Wednesday warned pro-Russian separatists against grabbing more land in eastern Ukraine and stressed Moscow has a "special responsibility" to help restore peace as fighting escalates.