KYIV, March 15 - Russia and the United States ratcheted up their confrontational rhetoric Wednesday over a U.S. surveillance drone that encountered Russian warplanes and crashed near Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, which the Kremlin has illegally annexed.

KYIV, March 11 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is very concerned about the events at Chornobyl nuclear power plant and calls for the plant to be returned to safe operation.

LVIV, March 14 - Russia’s forces pounded away at Kyiv and other cities across the country on Monday in a punishing bombardment the Red Cross said has created “nothing short of a nightmare” for civilians, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, March 15 – Ukraine’s economy will rebound sharply in 2021 after a coronavirus-induced downturn in 2020, but will probably begin slowing down again in 2022, S&P Global Ratings, an international rating agency, reported.

KYIV, March 12 – The Ukrainian legislation does not foresee the self-isolation as part of preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, advisor to the Asters law firm Inesa Letych has said.

KYIV, March 12 - Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov and representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Ukraine Jarno Habicht have discussed intensified cooperation in countering the spread of COVID-19 in Ukraine.

KYIV, March 12 – The Board of the National Bank of Ukraine has decided to cut the key policy rate to 10% per annum effective March 13 in a bid to help businesses affected by the spread of coronavirus.

KYIV, March 14 – More than 5,000 of mostly army veterans rallied in front of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office on Saturday in protest of a plan by his administration to begin direct talks with Moscow-backed separatists.

KYIV, March 15 – Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said the European Commission (EC) will probably approve macro-financial assistance to Ukraine in early fall of this year.

KYIV, March 15 - A Ukrainian lawmaker once hailed as a hero and a symbol of resistance against Russia, has been accused of plotting a terrorist attack against the Kiev parliament, authorities said Thursday, AFP reported.