DAVOS, Jan 17 - Ukraine’s first lady on Tuesday pressed world leaders and corporate executives at the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering to do more to help her country at a time when Russia’s invasion is leaving children dying and the world struggling with food insecurity.

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 - Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Tuesday that his country plans to “join” the U.S. and Germany’s efforts to train and arm Ukraine with advanced Patriot defense systems.

KYIV, Jan 17 - The top U.S. military officer, Army Gen. Mark Milley, traveled to a site near the Ukraine-Poland border on Tuesday and talked with his Ukrainian counterpart face to face for the first time — a meeting underscoring the growing ties between the two militaries and coming at a critical time as Russia’s war with Ukraine nears the one-year mark.

KYIV, Jan 18 - A helicopter carrying Ukraine’s interior minister crashed into a kindergarten in a foggy residential suburb of Kyiv on Wednesday, killing him and about a dozen other people, including a child on the ground, authorities said.

BERLIN, Jan 17 - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday he will appoint a regional official as the new defense minister following the resignation of the much-criticized Christine Lambrecht.

The defense minister-designate, Boris Pistorius, is a member of Scholz’s Social Democratic Party and has served as interior minister of Lower Saxony state since 2013.

WASHINGTON, Jan 14 - The US has information that indicates Russia has prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine, a US official told CNN on Friday, in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion.

KYIV, Jan 14 – The main challenges for Ukraine in 2022 are keeping the budget deficit within 3.5% of GDP and bringing inflation to the target, Viktor Koziuk, a member of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), said.

WASHINGTON, Jan 14 – The U.S. is putting pressure on European allies and partners to agree on potential sanctions against Russia worried about slow progress despite weeks of talks and heightened concerns the Russian president could soon invade Ukraine, Bloomberg reported.

KYIV, Jan 14 – A hacker attack on a number of government websites was carried out on Friday night, the SBU and the State Special Communications Service are investigating the incident and collecting digital evidence, the press service of the SBU reported.

KYIV, Jan 14 – Azerbaijan and Ukraine have plans for cooperation in the energy sector, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said and expressed confidence that they would be implemented.