KIEV, Aug. 18 – It is necessary to conduct a regrouping of the forces involved in the anti-terrorist operation to continue offensive actions in the east, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – The European Union is ready to assist Ukraine in providing aid to residents in eastern Ukrainian territories liberated during the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) and internally displaced persons (IDP), Director of the European Commission's Humanitarian and Civil Protection Operations Jean-Louis de Brouwer said at a meeting with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - Ukraine will soon start building a liquefied natural gas terminal near Odessa to reduce dependence on imports of Russian gas, Oleksandr Turchynov, the speaker of Parliament, said Monday.

The $1 billion project is supposed to use a floating platform to begin LNG imports before expanding the project on-shore.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - Work at four enterprises of Metinvest Group in Yenakiyeve and Hartsyzsk in Donetsk region, the Yenakiyeve Iron and Steel Works, Yenakiyeve Coke and Chemicals Plant, Khartsyzsk Pipe Plant and remaining de-energized Avdiyivka Coke and Chemicals Plant, were halted as a result of powerful shell attacks.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Under the guise of humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Russia wants to create a corridor to supply terrorists with tanks, multiple rocket launchers and weapons, Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - Dozens of people, including women and children, were killed as they fled fighting in eastern Ukraine on Monday when their convoy of buses was hit by rocket fire, a military spokesman said.

KIEV, Aug. 15 - The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has advised Ukrainian citizens to refrain from traveling to Egypt without urgent necessity due to the introduction of a state of emergency and the deteriorating security situation in the country.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Ukraine should demand the imposition of international sanctions against Russia through the World Trade Organization, from the Batkivschyna faction MP Andriy Pavlovsky said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Russia decided to deploy its trade restrictions against Ukraine after obtaining reports that European leaders may have been leaning towards signing free trade and political association agreements with Kiev, a newspaper said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Russia may impose tougher trade sanctions against Ukraine should Kiev make the “suicidal” move to sign free trade and political association agreements with the European Union, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday.