KYIV, June 18 – Ukraine has successfully passed the International Maritime Organization (IMO) audit, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has said.

KYIV, June 18 - President Petro Poroshenko intends to discuss the points of tension created by Russia in the Black and Azov Seas with the leaders of the European Union during the Ukraine-EU summit on July 9.

KIEV, June 19 - The head of the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday indicated that Ukraine must quickly amend its recently approved anticorruption legislation in order to win resumption of $17.5 billion lending program.

KIEV, June 19 – President Petro Poroshenko has left on a working visit to the U.S., and - despite the lack of clarity on the part of U.S. officials - his press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko is still insisting that a meeting with President Donald Trump is in the cards.

WASHINGTON, June 19 - US Vice President Mike Pence will meet Petro Poroshenko in Washington on Tuesday, the White House said, but there was no word on whether the Ukrainian president will be hosted by Donald Trump, AFP reported.

KIEV, June 13 – Kiev's District Administrative Court has overturned a decision by Kiev's City Employment Center which had cancelled the permit of author and host of the Shuster LIVE talk show Savik Shuster to work in Ukraine, TV Channel 112.Ukraine reported on Monday.

KIEV, June 17 – The Ukrainian authorities have ineffectively spent tens of millions of euros that were earlier allocated by the European Union to strengthen Ukraine's state border, EU Ambassador to Ukraine Jan Tombinski said.

KIEV, June 18 – The State Financial Monitoring Service has detected 42 companies registered in Cyprus, Panama, Britain, Belize, and the Seychelles that are directly connected to ousted President Viktor Yanukovych and his entourage, and $1.34 billion worth of funds have been blocked on the accounts of 19 of them, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

LONDON, June 19 - NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen sounded a new alarm about Russia's possible intentions, saying that at least a few thousand more Russian troops were now on Ukraine's long eastern border.

KIEV, June 19 – Europe’s natural gas supplies will be at risk in the winter after Russia’s sudden decision to cancel an important contract with the Ukrainian gas shipper, Naftogaz Ukrayiny reported Thursday.