KYIV, Dec 28 - France’s defense minister on Wednesday pledged further military support for Ukraine, insisting his government’s backing is unflagging while efforts are also being made with Moscow to reach an eventual negotiated end to Russia’s invasion.

KYIV, Dec 28 – The sensitivity of the Ukrainian financial system to new attacks has decreased significantly since the beginning of November, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said in its Financial Stability Report, which is released every six months.

KYIV, Dec 29 – Japan has already provided Ukraine with $1.1 billion in financial, humanitarian and military assistance, and intends to allocate another $500 million, Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Kuninori Matsuda has said.

KYIV, Dec 29 - Multiple regions of Ukraine, including its capital, faced a massive Russian missile attack Thursday, the biggest wave of strikes in weeks targeting national infrastructure, CBS News reported. Air raid sirens rang out across the country.

KYIV, Dec 29 – The Ministry of Health hopes to receive the first 150,000-200,000 doses of vaccines against coronavirus (COVID-19) disease in February and begin large-scale vaccination among doctors and military personnel in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) zone.

KYIV, Dec 29 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree on Tuesday to suspend the head of the Constitutional Court, Oleksandr Tupytskiy, for two months, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Dec 28 – Former Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, in his first public appearance since his dismissal in 2019, said the government will fail to restart sustainable economic growth without rebuilding middle class in Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 27 – Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov said that any response to the decision by volunteers to launch a blockade against territories not under Ukraine's control in Donetsk and Luhansk regions is within the competence of only one official –President Petro Poroshenko, who is the nation's commander-in-chief.

KIEV, Dec. 29 - Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and two others injured in 24 hours in attacks by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, a security official said Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 - President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian suspected spies and imposed sanctions on two Russian intelligence agencies over their involvement in hacking U.S. political groups in the 2016 presidential election, Reuters reported.