NEW YORK, May 22 - Families of the passengers of the Malaysia Airlines airplane shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014 are suing Russia and its president, according to Australian media, The Atlantic reported.

KIEV, May 20 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman met with Amos Hochstein, the U.S. State Department's Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, and discussed deepening cooperation of the two countries in the sphere of Ukraine's energy independence.

KIEV, May 20 – The United States will additionally give Ukraine $28 million in humanitarian aid for Donbas war victims.

"That is why today, we are very pleased to announce that the United States is providing an additional more than $28 million in humanitarian assistance.

KIEV, May 23 – President Petro Poroshenko met with his Slovak counterpart Andrej Kiska on the sidelines of the UN World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul and discussed creation of a gas hub.

KIEV, May 23 - About half of Ukrainians believe that their country should first carry out reforms and only then think about European Union membership; a mere 6% of Ukrainians currently support the idea of Ukraine's integration into the EU and NATO, as is seen from the findings of a poll of 2,000 respondents GfK Ukraine conducted in all regions of Ukraine, except the areas in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions currently not controlled by Kiev, under a contract with the Institute of World Politics.

WASHINGTON, MAY 23 - Washington will maintain economic sanctions against Russia over its support of armed separatists in eastern Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea and is hopeful that the European Union will do the same, a senior U.S. official said Monday, The Associated Press reported.

KIEV, May 23 – Russia should stop massive supplies of lethal weapons to separatist enclaves and withdraw its troops immediately from Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko told President Putin in a phone call early Tuesday.

KIEV, May 23 - Ukraine wants to deepen cooperation with China in the military and technical sector, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

BRUSSELS, May 23 - Russia is not going to force Ukraine to join the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union, says Vladimir Chizhov, Russia's permanent envoy to the EU.

KIEV, May 23 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov backed down on Thursday from his order to revoke the official accreditation of a dozen local reporters after they displayed slogans at a cabinet meeting to protest against an attack on two colleagues.