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).

KYIV, Aug 15 - A prolonged war is becoming increasingly likely, and this prospect requires a review of the country's macroeconomic strategy, in particular, the current set of policies leading to reduction of forex reserves is becoming increasingly untenable, said a group of international and Ukrainian economists.

KYIV, Aug 15 - The Ukrainian military said Monday that it had repelled more than a dozen Russian attacks in the country’s east and north, including attempts to advance on key cities in the eastern industrial heartland known as the Donbas.

KYIV, Aug 15 – The European Union and 42 states of the world issued a statement in which they called on Russia to immediately withdraw its troops from Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP) in the town of Enerhodar, Zaporizhia region and not interfere with the operator and the Ukrainian authorities to fulfill their obligations on nuclear and radiation safety, and the International the Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to carry out its mandate.

KYIV, Aug 16 – Ukraine should increase vaccination among priority groups, in particular, health workers, teachers and people older than 60 years, the Word Bank said Monday.

KYIV, Aug 16 – A video surveillance footage taken at the home of Konstantin Pavlov, a mayor of Kryviy Rih who was found dead on Sunday, shows presence of no other people nearby, a local police chief said Monday.

KYIV, Aug 15 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to share coronavirus vaccine with Ukraine once it is fully tested and available amid growing concerns that number of COVID-19 cases has been growing rapidly.