KIEV, July 18 ??“ Four senior police officers will be dismissed and the entire traffic police department will be disbanded as a result of a dramatic shakeup announced by President Viktor Yushchenko on Monday.

KIEV, July 16 ??“ Roman Bezsmertniy, the deputy prime minister and the key advocate of an important administrative reform, submitted his resignation Saturday after a tense meeting with regional leaders who criticized the reform.

KHARKIV, July 16 ??“ The government will seek to set up a large financial company that would be able to raise financing to help recently merged aircraft manufacturer Antonov, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Saturday.

KIEV, July 17 ??“ Russia and Ukraine ended a potentially devastating natural gas dispute on Sunday after Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrayiny signed an agreement settling the question of how to account for Russian gas stored in Ukrainian underground gas tanks.

KIEV, July 18 ??“ The second storage facility for waste nuclear fuel at Chornobyl nuclear plant will be commissioned no earlier than 2010.

KANANASKIS, Alberta, June 18 - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the Group of Seven summit on Tuesday with new aid from host Canada for its war against Russia but said diplomacy is in "crisis" having missed the chance to press U.S. President Donald Trump for more weapons, Reuters reported.

KYIV, June 17 - Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal filed a lawsuit to challenge an order from the anti-corruption agency to terminate Yuriy Vitrenko as the CEO of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the Kyiv District Administrative Court reported late Wednesday.

KYIV, June 17 - Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Thursday he welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden's tough messaging when he met President Vladimir Putin this week and said now was the time to make Russia withdraw from Ukraine, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, June 17 - The U.S. State Department has cleared a potential sale to Ukraine of 16 Mark VI patrol boats and other gear worth $600 million, Defense News reported Wednesday.

KYIV, June 17 – Ukraine on Wednesday extended ‘adaptive quarantine’ through the end of July amid growing number of coronavirus cases during the past two weeks, de-facto delaying full reopening of the economy.