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.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Three lines of fortification constructions amounting to a total of 268 are almost completely ready, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – The state-run Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise is considering participating in the NATO Regional Airspace Security Program (RASP).

According to the enterprise's press service, the advantages of the program were discussed at a meeting of NATO experts and representatives of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Col. Carol Northrup, military attaché of the U.S. embassy in Ukraine, presented a military field hospital on the belhalf of the embassy at a ceremony in Zhytomyr, the U.S. embassy in Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - The Board of Directors of the World Bank plans to consider at a meeting on August 25 the issue of the Second Development Policy Loan (DPL-2) in the amount of $500 million to Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – Thinking about canceling that tour of the pyramids? Think again, says the head of a Ukrainian tour industry trade group.

"The Egypt direction will ebb“ in the coming week, according to Ihor Holubakha, chairman of the All-Ukrainian Association of Tour Operators.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – UDAR Party leader Vitali Klitschko has called upon the Ukrainian government to address the World Trade Organization and officially inform it of the trade conflict between Ukraine and Russia so that the dispute could be settled quickly.

"The WTO has not been informed on the trade dispute between Ukraine and Russia. Neither Kiev nor Moscow sent a request asking for aid in settling the conflict," reads a statement of the party.