KYIV, June 20 - The former head of Ukraine's breakaway independent church held a rare conference of clerics Thursday with the aim of restoring his religious leadership, threatening the future of Ukraine's new unified Orthodox Church, AFP reported. | More

KYIV, June 20 – Ukraine's gross external debt dropped 0.24% in January through March to $114.43 billion as of April 1, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reported on Thursday. | More

KYIV, June 20 - Ukraine's Constitutional Court has upheld the order by new president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to dissolve Parliament, meaning the fresh elections will go ahead as planned tomorrow, Euronews reported. | More

KYIV, June 19 - International investigators on Wednesday charged three Russians and a Ukrainian with murder over the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the first people to face justice over the tragedy five years ago in which 298 people were killed, AFP reported. | More

KYIV, June 19 – Dragon Capital Group plans to finalize deals worth $250 million by the end of 2019, Dragon Capital CEO Tomas Fiala said.

"We have several deals at the completion stage that we will finish anyway. Before the [presidential] elections we closed deals that we already had on the pipeline for six months or a year. | More

KYIV, June 19 – PepsiCo Ukraine is selling its dairy plant in the Kharkiv region, but will keep the brand of Wimm-Bill-Dann Ukraine, the company reported. | More

BERLIN, June 18 - German chancellor Angela Merkel has assured President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that she wants sanctions on Moscow to continue and Ukraine not to be damaged by a controversial new Russia-Germany gas pipeline, The Irish Times reported. | More

KYIV, June 18 - Deputy Foreign Minister Olena Zerkal said Dutch authorities plan to name suspects in the downing of flight MH17 five years ago, in which all 298 people aboard the passenger jet were killed, RFE/RL reported. | More

KYIV, June 18 – Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said that Ukraine would have a real chance of getting the European prospect after 2025, and maybe by 2035 the country could become a member of the European Union (EU).
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PARIS, June 17 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged European countries to keep "pressure" on Russia to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine as he met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, RFE/RL reported. | More