KYIV, May 17 – The Black Sea Grain Initiative will function for another two months, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said on Wednesday.

"Through the efforts of our country, the support of our Russian friends and the contribution of our Ukrainian friends, a decision was made to extend the Black Sea Grain Initiative for another two months," he said on Twitter on Wednesday.

REYKJAVIK, May 17 - More than 40 nations agreed Wednesday to set up a system to tally the damage Russia has inflicted on Ukraine in the hope of getting reparations, adding to the international legal challenges the Kremlin is facing.

KYIV, May 14 – Kyiv budget losses reached about UAH 1.5 billion because of pandemic of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko said.

KYIV, May 16 - Parliamentary Speaker Dmytro Razumkov said Saturday efforts to return control of Crimea to Kyiv are part of "a difficult and slow process," that Ukraine is determined to resolve, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, May 17 - The Polish Foreign Ministry has criticized Russia for the construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait without the consent of the Ukrainian side and calls on Russia to refrain from further violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity and independence.

WARSAW, May 17 – Poland has detained a Russian woman who was part of a pro-Russian group that sought to whip up tension between Poland and Ukraine, Reuters reported Thursday citing the national agency for internal security ABW.

KYIV, May 16 – Ukraine completed repair at the Olympiysky stadium in Kyiv ahead of the UEFA Champions League final between England's Liverpool and Spain's Real Madrid on May 26, Youth and Sports Minister Ihor Zhdanov said Wednesday.

KYIV, May 16 - NATO condemns the opening of the Kerch Strait Bridge and sees this as another violation of Ukraine's sovereignty.

NATO Deputy Spokesperson Piers Cazalet said this in a statement, which was made available to Interfax-Ukraine.

VILNIUS, May 16 - The Lithuanian government has decided to set quotas for foreign workers in some professions in connection with the intensive rise of immigration from Ukraine, Lithuanian Vice-Chancellor Deividas Matulionis.

KIEV, May 17 - A package of bills necessary for cooperation with the International Monetary Fund is being formed in the course of negotiations with the fund mission, which is now working in Ukraine, said Ihor Hryniv, chairman of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.