WASHINGTON, Jan 19 - The U.S. will send 90 Stryker combat vehicles and an additional 59 Bradley fighting vehicles to Ukraine, in addition to hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, the Pentagon announced on Thursday. It is the latest aid package timed to help Ukraine push back against Russia’s entrenched forward lines.

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 - CIA Director William Burns visited Kyiv last week to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a U.S. official said Thursday, in the latest example of high-level contacts between the U.S. and Ukraine.

KYIV, Jan 18 - Ukraine, in the absence of additional shocks, may pass the second half of 2022 without an urgent conclusion of a new program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Danylo Hetmantsev, the head of the Verkhovna Rada committee on finance, taxation and customs policy, believes.

BERLIN, Jan 18 - Germany signaled on Tuesday that it could halt the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia if Moscow invades Ukraine, and Western nations rallied behind Kyiv over a Russian troop buildup that has stoked fears of war, Reuters reported.

LONDON, Jan 17 - Britain said on Monday it had begun supplying Ukraine with anti-tank weapons to help it defend itself from a potential invasion, during a stand-off with Russia which has massed troops near the Ukrainian border, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, Jan 18 - The White House believes Russia could launch an invasion of Ukraine at any moment, press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday, warning that an “extremely dangerous situation” is building along the Ukrainian border, NBC News reported.

KYIV, Jan 19 – Ukraine is committed to joining the European Union in developing hydrogen technology and building environmentally friendly ecosystem to generate power, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Tuesday.

KYIV, Jan 19 - Ukrainian investigators formally notified the head of Ukraine’s constitutional court that he is a suspect in a witness tampering case, Reuters reported Tuesday citing the state investigation bureau.

KYIV, Jan 16 – The Cabinet of Ministers seeks to review the strategy of state-owned banks for quick reduction of the state-owned stakes in these banks and the share of non-performing loans (NPL), Ukrainian Finance Minister Oksana Markarova said.

KYIV, Jan 16 – The released audio recordings of Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk’s meeting with members of the Cabinet of Ministers and the National Bank (NBU), is an attack on the Ukrainian government, in which Russia, as an aggressor country and former owner of the nationalized Privat Bank, are interested and actively participating, former President Party Petro Poroshenko said.