KIEV, May 29 ??“ Ukraine within the next two weeks may start talks with Russia over natural gas supplies to try to avoid a price hike in July, a newspaper reported citing Energy and Fuel Minister Ivan Plachkov.

KIEV, May 29 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko Monday gave a preliminary approval to the appointment of Viktor Plakida, the director of a regional power company, as the prime minister of Crimea, Ukraine??™s autonomous republic.

KYIV, April 27 – In the settlements liberated from Russian occupation in the north and east of Ukraine, work continues to restore infrastructure facilities damaged as a result of hostilities, Deputy Head of the President's Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko has said.

BRUSSELS, April 27 - The European Commission (EC) has proposed to suspend for one year the collection of import duties on all Ukrainian exports to the European Union, the EC communiqué said.

KYIV, April 27 - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, while on a visit to Kyiv on Thursday, said the U.N. would continue to push for a full-scale cease-fire as Ukraine fights off Russian invasion since February 24.

KYIV, April 27 – U.S. President Joe Biden sent Congress a $33 billion request to fund more weapons and provide longer-term economic assistance for Kyiv, as Russia’s military is gradually seizing more territory in Ukraine’s east, pushing south from the city of Izyum with the apparent aim of cutting off Ukrainian forces.

KYIV, April 27 – President Volodymyr Zelensky said that cruise missiles launched by Russia flew over the power units of three Ukrainian nuclear power plants at once, Zaporizhia, Khmelnytska and Yuzhnoukrainsk NPP.

KYIV, April 27 – Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has said the federal government of Canada will change its sanctions law to allow seized and sanctioned foreign assets to be redistributed as compensation to victims or to help in rebuilding a foreign state from war, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has reported.

MOSCOW, April 28 - Russia's foreign minister sternly warned Ukrainian officials Wednesday that Moscow would not accept their push to revise a peace deal for eastern Ukraine, AP reported.

WASHINGTON, April 29 - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Ukraine next week, CBS News reported on Thursday, with tensions high between Ukraine and Russia.