LONDON, Dec. 15 - New tests reveal the level of dioxin in the blood of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko is more than 6,000 times higher than normal, according to the expert analyzing the samples.

BRUSSELS, Nov 14 – The European Commission announced the allocation of an additional EUR 110 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine in light of the difficult situation caused by the war waged against the country by Russia.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Nov 15 - Leaders of most of the world’s economic powers are nearing approval of a declaration strongly denouncing Russia’s invasion that has devastated Ukraine and roiled the global economy. Even China, which has mostly declined to censure Russia until now, and India, which buys weapons from Russia, are providing encouraging words.

KYIV, Nov 15 - President Joe Biden convened an “emergency” meeting of the Group of Seven and NATO leaders in Indonesia Wednesday morning for consultations after NATO-ally Poland said a “Russian-made” missile killed two people in the eastern part of its country near the Ukraine border.

KYIV, Nov 15 – Russia on Tuesday launched its biggest barrage of missiles yet striking targets across Ukraine and causing widespread blackouts in the country, officials said.

KYIV, Nov 15 - Poland said early Wednesday that a Russian-made missile fell in the eastern part of the country, killing two people in a blast that President Volodymyr Zelensky decried as “a very significant escalation” of the war.

WASHINGTON, Nov 15 - President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $37 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine, a massive infusion of cash that could help support the nation as Russian forces suffer battlefield losses in their nine-month-old invasion.

KYIV, Nov 12 – Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Prime Minister of Slovakia Eduard Heger have signed a joint statement in which they noted the potential for the development of bilateral partnership, in particular, in the energy, military and humanitarian spheres.

KYIV, Nov 15 – Russia is artificially organizing the migration crisis, actually using Belarus to create a new point of destabilization of the security situation in Eastern Europe, Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Ruslan Demchenko said.

KYIV, Nov 15 – Germany’s energy regulator said Monday that Naftogaz and GTSOU, the two Ukrainian state-owned energy companies, will be included in the ongoing German certification procedures of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.