BRUSSELS, May 13 – Brussels expects that the EU member states will approve the proposal to provide Ukraine with the fourth tranche of military assistance in the amount of EUR 500 million in the near future.

KYIV, May 13 - The Ministry of Infrastructure has already reached an agreement with the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine on one of the western checkpoints being only for fuel trucks, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Mustafa Nayyem said.

KYIV, May 13 – Restructuring of Ukraine's external public debt is currently not advisable, but this issue or the issue of its partial write-off can be returned to after peace is established, Oleh Ustenko, adviser to the President of Ukraine on economic issues, believes.

MOSCOW, May 14 - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that neighboring Ukraine was becoming 'anti-Russia' and that Moscow would be ready to react to what he said were threats to its own security, Reuters reported.

KYIV, May 15 - Two Ukrainian ministers have reportedly submitted their resignations to parliament while a third minister is expected to be fired as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's government experiences more turnover, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, May 16 – Ukraine's Parliament has backed at second reading bill No. 7466 setting the rules of work of copyrights collective management organizations (CMOs).

KYIV, May 15 - Ukraine will fight Russia in international courts over construction of illegal Kerch Strait Bridge, which links Russia with Crimea, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KYIV, May 16 – Ukraine’s security service SBU on Wednesday shared evidence with the U.S. indicating that Russia had used its military personnel to attack civil population in Donbas.

KYIV, May 16 – The employment rate in Luhansk and Donetsk region fell by 5-10%, and the unemployment rate grew by 5-7% from 2013 through 2017, according to a study of the unemployment rate in eastern part of Ukraine entitled "Four years in the war. The crisis of the employment at Donbas."

KIEV, May 12 – The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other international financial institutions retain high level of confidence in Ukraine , Valeriya Gontareva, the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), said.