GENEVA, Jan 10 – U.S. and Russian negotiators failed to narrow their differences in security talks in Geneva on Monday against the backdrop of Moscow’s military buildup near Ukraine, U.S. and Russian diplomats said, The Wall Street Journal reported.

KYIV, Jan 11 - Ukraine's GDP growth in 2021, according to preliminary estimates, will amount to 3.2%, which won't compensate for the 4% economic decline in 2020, head of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Bohdan Danylyshyn has said.

KYIV, Jan 11 - Ukraine is ready to take the necessary decisions to end the war in its eastern Donbas region at a new summit of the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 – The Biden administration has quietly authorized an additional $200 million in security assistance to Ukraine in late December as tensions with Russia have increased, CNN reported Monday.

KYIV, Jan 16 – The Ukrainian government press service has denied reports that Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk has tendered his resignation.

KYIV, Jan 16 - Ukrainian police are now investigating two major cases related to the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, one around possible illegal surveillance of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and the other around a suspected attack by Russian military hackers targeting a company where the son of former Vice President Joe Biden sat on the board, ABC News reported.

KYIV, Jan 16 – Ukraine asked Estonia, Lithuania and Poland for greater international pressure on Russia for release of Ukrainian sailors and boats recently captured in the Black Sea.

KYIV, Jan 15 – Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) purchased from Turkey can be equipped with high-precision rocket weapons and can also be used to destroy naval targets, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KYIV, Jan 16 – Russia on Wednesday rejected a plan to send massive U.N. peacekeeping force to occupied territories in Ukraine, a sign that fighting will probably continue in the region for months.

KYIV, Jan 15 – President Petro Poroshenko said Parliament will probably soon include chapters in Constitution on joining the European Union (EU) and NATO.