KIEV, Aug. 15 – More than 100 people are still being held captive by militants in east Ukraine, according to President Petro Poroshenko.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 15 – The European Union said restrictive measures taken by the EU are directly linked to the Russian Federation's violation of international law with the illegal annexation of Crimea and the destabilization of Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has expressed its strong protest over the attempts by the Russian Federation to put Ukraine's nuclear facilities, installations and materials in the temporarily occupied territory (in Crimea and Sevastopol) under Russia's national jurisdiction, and an attempt to apply to them the provisions of the agreement between the Soviet Union and the IAEA dated February 21, 1985.

BERLIN, Aug. 17 - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Sunday after a meeting with his counterparts from Ukraine, Russia and France that they would report back to leaders in their capitals and possibly agree on Monday or Tuesday how to continue talks, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Aug. 17 - Ukrainian forces have raised their flag over a police station in the city of Luhansk which was for months under rebel control, Kiev said on Sunday.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – The trial of former Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko and the international community's reaction to it have not worsened the country's relations with European states, according to Oleh Voloshyn, director of the Foreign Ministry's Information Policy Department.

KIEV, Aug. 17 – Russia on Wednesday sought to play a role in the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by alleging that former President Viktor Yushchenko had supported the controversial gas agreement in January 2009.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – The police have launched a criminal case into a fire at warehouses near Nyvky subway station in Kiev under Article 270 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fire safety rules violations).

KIEV, Aug. 17 – Dangerous ammunition will be removed from the territory of the arms depot in the village of Lozova (Kharkiv region) within a year, First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev said in an interview with Channel 5.

KIEV, Aug. 17 – Ukraine will boost output of natural gas at least 50% over the next three years to about 30 billion cubic meters a year, First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev said.