KYIV, Dec 28 - Belarus’ authoritarian president on Thursday attended a government-organized meeting with children brought from Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine, openly defying an international outrage over his country’s involvement in Moscow’s deportation of Ukrainian children.

KYIV, Dec 27 – Clandestine warehouses with more than 160,000 tons of Ukrainian iron ore belonging to the company of Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov have been discovered on the territory of several seaports of Ukraine, the property has been seized, the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has said.

KYIV, Dec 24 - The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office has asked a court to arrest former president Petro Poroshenko on suspicion of high treason and financing pro-Russian separatists, a lawmaker from Poroshenko's faction in parliament said.

KYIV, Dec 27 - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday he would ponder a slew of options if the West fails to meet his push for security guarantees precluding NATO's expansion to Ukraine, The Associated Press reported.

WASHINGTON, Dec 28 – U.S. and Russian officials will hold security talks next month amid an alarming Russian military buildup on its shared border with Ukraine, CNBC reported on Tuesday.

KYIV, Dec 28 - Ukrainian prosecutors said on Monday they are investigating the head of the Constitutional Court, Oleksandr Tupytskiy, in connection with the suspected bribery of a witness, and called for Tupytskiy to be suspended for two months, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Dec 24 – The number one priority of Ukrainian diplomacy for 2021 is countering Russian aggression and strengthening Ukraine's security, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

KYIV, Dec 28 – President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the law On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine 'On Corruption Prevention' to Restore the Institutional Mechanism of Corruption Prevention, which parliament adopted on December 15, the press service of the President's Office reported.

KYIV, Dec 27 - The overwhelming majority of Ukrainians believe that the events in Ukraine are developing in the wrong direction, according to a poll conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Razumkov Center's sociological service.

KYIV, Dec. 28 - European leaders have hailed a long-awaited exchange of prisoners between Kyiv and Russia-backed separatists that enabled hundreds of former captives to return to their homes for the New Year holiday, RFE/RL reported.