KYIV, Aug 17 - A Ukrainian soldier was killed in the latest attacks launched by pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine’s breakaway east, AFP reported Tuesday citing the country’s military.

KYIV, Aug 17 - Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Monday he had recalled the ambassador to Belarus for consultations to assess the prospects of further bilateral relations between the two neighbors “in the new reality,” Reuters reported.

KYIV, Aug 16 - The Ukrainian Armed Forces need funding at the level of at least UAH 112 billion in 2019, Chief of the General Staff and Commander-In-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Viktor Muzhenko has said.

KYIV, Aug 16 - The World Bank at the request of the Ukrainian authorities is preparing a policy-based guarantee (PBG) to support key policy and institutional reforms to promote economic growth, fiscal sustainability, and improved governance.

KYIV, Aug. 16 - Ukrainian prosecutors in the treason trial against ex-President Viktor Yanukovych have asked the court in Kyiv to sentence the pro-Russian former leader to 15 years in prison, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Aug 16 – Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has become a co-owner of the television channel Espreso.TV, according tot information contained in the State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs.

KYIV, Aug. 17 - President Petro Poroshenko has ordered an urgent investigation into a contested report that a factory in Ukraine may have supplied powerful missile engines to North Korea in breach of international sanctions, The Irish Times reported Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 17 – Ukraine's State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection claims it is impossible to carry out examination to certify the comprehensive information protection system of the public register of declarations of persons authorized to fulfill public or local government functions. The authority backs the idea of inspecting the situation around the launch of declaration by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Prosecutor General's Office (PGO).

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - Donald Trump's campaign chairman helped a pro-Russian governing party in Ukraine secretly route at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012, and did so in a way that effectively obscured the foreign political party's efforts to influence U.S. policy, The Associated Press reported.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - The Pentagon has identified eight staging areas in Russia where large numbers of military forces appear to be preparing for incursions into Ukraine, according to U.S. defense officials, the Washington Free Beacon reported.