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.

KIEV, May 16 – The mayors of the Ukrainian capital and three regional centers (Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv) have expressed their willingness to host the Eurovision 2017 song contest in their cities.

KIEV, May 17 – A senior lawmaker from President Petro Poroshenko’s group in Parliament on Tuesday withdrew from an anti-corruption committee after his controversial political ties were exposed.

KIEV, May 17 – Ukraine needs access to modern Western lethal weapons in order to effectively defend itself against the ongoing Russian aggression in the east, a top security official said Tuesday.

KIEV, May 16 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Ukraine's Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Default Ratings at 'CCC.'

"The issue ratings on Ukraine's senior unsecured foreign and local currency bonds have also been affirmed at 'CCC'. The Country Ceiling has been affirmed at 'CCC' and the Short-term foreign-currency IDR at 'C'," according to the agency.

KIEV, May 16 - The profits from ticket sales for Eurovision 2017 may cover approximately 75% of the expenses, and a fairly low budget is needed to organize the song contest, Jaanika Merilo, an aide to the Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister, said.

KIEV, May 16 – Ukraine's real gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2016 increased by 0.1% compared to the first quarter of 2015, while in the previous year the drop was 17%, the State Statistics Service reported.