KIEV, Sept. 14 – The European Union told Ukraine Friday to quickly form a government after the Sept. 30 election and to focus on economic and political reforms needed for boosting cooperation with the 27-nation bloc.

KYIV, Aug 11 – A Russian drone and missile barrage on Kyiv on Sunday killed two people, including a 4-year-old boy. Russia attacked Ukraine with four ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea and 57 Shahed drones, Ukraine’s air force said. Air defenses shot down 53 of the drones.

KYIV, Aug 11 - Days after Ukraine began a surprise military incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has broken the government’s silence on it by indirectly acknowledging the ongoing military actions to “push the war out into the aggressor’s territory.”

KYIV, Aug 9 – The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced on Friday additional security assistance to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs.

KYIV, Aug 13 - Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of the lightning incursion that has embarrassed the Kremlin.

KYIV, Aug 13 – Ukraine would like to help African countries achieve "food independence," serious interest of the African side in a number of proposals is noticeable, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Heorhiy Tykhy said.

KYIV, Aug 13 - Ukraine said on Tuesday its biggest cross-border assault of the war to date had taken control of 74 settlements in Russia's region of Kursk and was still advancing, making gains of one to three km in the last 24 hours, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Aug 14 - Ukrainian forces pushed on with their major cross-border advance into Russia’s Kursk region for a second week Wednesday, claiming that they took more ground, captured more Russian prisoners and destroyed a bomber in attacks on military airfields.

KYIV, Aug 15 - Russian forces unleashed missiles across Ukraine early on Tuesday, killing and wounding civilians and damaging infrastructure. The barrage came just hours before top Russian military officials and their counterparts from allied countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa gathered outside Moscow for a security conference.

KYIV, Aug 15 – The international rating agency Fitch Ratings on Saturday night downgraded Ukraine's foreign-currency long-term issuer default rating (IDR) from "C" to "RD" (restricted default), while the Standard & Poor's agency downgraded Ukraine's foreign-currency long-term and short-term ratings from "CC/" to "SD/SD" (selective default).