KIEV, Aug. 16 – Kiev will not initiate the severance of diplomatic relations with Moscow, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Russia, by recently building up tensions with Ukraine, is seeking to put pressure on Western powers to remove painful economic sanctions imposed two years ago, the head of a Russian think tank said Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Eight Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in action in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman Oleksandr Motuzianyk said.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Four border guards of the Chop border detachment of the State Border Service of Ukraine have been arrested on suspicion of illegal cutting of forest under the military service negligence article, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) has reported.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – British-based procurement agency Crown Agents has reported a savings of more than 45% or UAH 500 million on procurement of medicines for children's and adult oncology programs for the funds of the 2015 national budget compared to purchases in 2014.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko and Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding between the two agencies regarding judicial cooperation.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Over 3,600 Russian citizens were refused entry into Ukraine in the six months of 2016, Ukrainian State Border Service chief Viktor Nazarenko said.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – Ukraine's TVi Channel has claimed that the exclusion of the channel by cable operators in Donetsk and Mariupol from their networks on August 13 was due to direct instructions from the regional representatives of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting.

KIEV, Aug. 16 - A high court in Ukraine on Thursday began hearing the appeal of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is seeking to overturn her seven-year jail sentence for abuse of office.

KIEV, Aug. 16 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Tuesday rejected a proposal from Gazprom that Ukraine surrender its natural gas pipelines, much like Belarus, in exchange for lower gas prices from Russia.