KYIV, July 16 - The majority of Ukrainians favors Ukraine's accession to the European Union and NATO, according to the poll data of the sociological group Rating.

HELSINKI, July 16 - Vladimir Putin said that President Trump shouldn’t worry about the Nord Stream 2 gas line into Europe shutting out Ukraine from its traditional position as transit route, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 15 – The inclusion of presumed consent for organ donation in Ukrainian legislation will allow Ukraine to develop transplantology and meet the demand in the country for donor organs, Andriy Kostenko, deputy chief doctor of the National Center for Transplantology, said.

KIEV, July 16 – The Russian authorities won't manage to blame the failure of the Minsk agreements on Ukraine, and Russia will have to implement them as a result, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, July 16 – The National Bank of Ukraine has started the second phase of reforming the banking system, and its top-priority tasks are restoring trust, improving the protection of the rights of creditors and consumers, and the development of infrastructure, NBU Governor Valeriya Gontareva said.

KIEV, July 16 - Ukraine may ask the European Union for help in persuading Russia to allow transit of Central Asian natural gas from Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, an official said Thursday.

KIEV, July 16 - Parliament on Thursday passed all the laws needed to receive an installment of more than $3 billion under an IMF-backed bailout program, Finance Ministry official Artem Shevalev reported.

KIEV, July 15 – The European Court of Human Rights has started to consider the second complaint by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, July 16 – A group of activists rallied in front of a police station in Fastiv on Tuesday, saying that police officers have repeatedly resorted to torturing detainees at the facility.

KIEV, July 15 - Ukraine is interested in the idea of creating a grain pool with Russia and Kazakhstan, but on condition it retains its status as an independent player on the world grain market, First Deputy Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Ivan Bisiuk said.