KIEV, Aug. 15 - Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, slammed the New York Times Monday morning after the newspaper published a story reporting that secret ledgers in Ukraine show more than $12 million in cash earmarked for him, Politico reported.

MOSCOW, Aug. 15 - Germany's foreign minister urged Russia and Ukraine on Monday to reduce tensions over Crimea and stick to the troubled Minsk peace accords as a way of ending hostilities in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Aug. 14 – The Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry of has proposed canceling the adjusting coefficients for the basic rate of the vehicle recycling tax: UAH 5,500 for passenger cars and UAH 11,000 for other vehicles.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – Russia’s ban on exports from Ukraine will have “very serious” ramifications if found to be politically motivated to stop Kiev’s integration with the European Union, a senior European official said Thursday.

ODESSA, Aug. 13 – Deputies of Odessa City Council have approved an instruction on the implementation of the law of Ukraine on the principles of the state language policy in Odessa at a special sitting on Monday and gave Russian language the status of a regional language in the city.

KIEV, Aug. 14 - The Foreign Ministry has described as a provocation media reports in Azerbaijan alleging that Ukraine sold multiple rocket launchers and mobile missile systems to Armenia in 2011.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – The Cabinet of Ministers will reward all Ukraine's Olympic prize winners and the athletes that were deprived of medals by unfair referees, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, Aug. 15 - Two Ukrainian coal miners were killed on Tuesday after an elevating equipment malfunction at Sovetska coal mine in Mariivka, the Donetsk region, the Emergency Situations Ministry reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – Ukraine’s two jailed opposition leaders on Wednesday lost a final appeal in their attempt to overturn a ban on their running for seats in Parliament, and are now considering an international lawsuit.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – Gazprom suggested on Monday that Ukraine should follow the footsteps of Belarus in surrendering its natural gas pipelines to the Russian company in exchange for lower gas prices.

Alexei Miller, the CEO of Gazprom, suggested the idea at a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko in Moscow.