KIEV, Dec. 17 ??“ The Communist Party, a vehemently pro-Russian group, on Sunday staged a well-financed anti-NATO campaign in Crimea, Ukraine??™s autonomous republic, aimed at slowing down President??™s Viktor Yushchenko??™s pro-Western foreign policy.

BRUSSELS, Nov 15 – The second tranche of the European Union for Ukraine's military needs from unexpected income of frozen Russian assets may amount to EUR 1.9 billion, with payment to be made next spring.

KYIV, Nov 15 – The time of disbursing EUR 4.1 billion for macrofinancial assistance (MFA) to Ukraine depends on the Council of the European Union, yet the European Commission is hopeful that will happen before the year-end, European Commission spokesperson Ana Pisonero said.

KYIV, Nov 18 - President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, easing limitations on the longer range weapons as Russia deploys thousands of North Korean troops to reinforce its war, The Associated Press reported citing a U.S. official and three other people familiar with the matter.

KYIV, Nov 17 – The State Service of Geology and Subsoil of Ukraine has signed a memorandum of technical assistance with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), head of the State Geology Service Roman Opimakh said on his Facebook page on Wednesday.

KYIV, Nov 17 – The macro-forecast and assessment of Ukraine's economic losses are necessary to review in connection with the latest missile attacks, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko has said.

KYIV, Nov 17 – When Ukraine restores territorial integrity and guarantees reliable peace, it will become a source of new global development, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, speaking via video link at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum conference on Thursday.

SCHIPHOL, Netherlands, Nov 17 - A Dutch court on Thursday convicted three men of murder for their role in shooting down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with a Russian surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people aboard the aircraft as it flew over a separatist-controlled region of eastern Ukraine in 2014.

KYIV, Nov 17 - Three Ukrainian nuclear power reactors were forced to shut down late Tuesday after Russian missile strike had hit their connections to power grid, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Wednesday.

KYIV, Nov 17 - Russian airstrikes targeted Ukraine’s energy facilities again Thursday as the first snow of the season fell in Kyiv, a harbinger of the hardship to come if Moscow’s missiles continue to take out power and gas plants as winter descends.