Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko attended the memorial service of the late US senator John McCain in Washington on September 1. After the ceremony, Poroshenko said that senator McCain was close to Ukraine and its people at a critical moment in its history, the Ukrainian president’s press service reports.

“We remembered him at the Maidan during the Revolution of Dignity, when at a temperature of minus 26 degrees he came out, hardly dressed, and approached the hundreds of thousands of people …

Ukraine has “all means” necessary to face the Russian fleet, said the Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Yuriy Bereza in an interview to  Observer news outlet.

 He suggested to “look at a map” of the Azov Sea to understand how to fight the Russian fleet. In his opinion, if “correctly” placed, missiles can “destroy in literally five to ten minutes” any fleet that enters the sea.

Additionally, according to the deputy, Ukraine has suitable weapons for this task. Specifically, these are the weapons …

10 institutions of general secondary education in the Donetsk region suspended work due to proximity to military operations, announced Oleksandr Kuts, the head of the Ukrainian military-civilian regional administration in the Donetsk region.

He said that on the first day of school, four fully renovated central schools will be opened in Vuhledar, Dobropillia, Kostiantynivka, and Mariupol. At the moment, 12 more educational institutions are being rebuilt.

"A total of 522 institutions of general …

Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Mission to the OSCE Gregory Macris stated that “Russia continues to block the expansion of the geographic scope of the Observer Mission along the border.”

"We once again must accept an inadequate, limited-scope mission covering just two border checkpoints, which together account for only a few hundred meters of the 2,300-kilometer Ukrainian-Russian border, much of which Ukraine does not control,” reads the statement published on the US State Department’s …

Ukraine transferred $160.3 million to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as payment of its principal loan, FinClub reported on Friday, August 31. According to the report, the payment was made in 114.3 SDRs or special drawing rights. Further payments are scheduled for November 1 and 5.

According to the payment schedule, Ukraine must repay more than $500 million for euro bonds and another $580 million for servicing debts to the IMF before the end of 2018.

The USA is involved in the murder of the Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko, stated the Deputy Commander of Operational Command of the DPR, Eduard Basurin on the TV Channel Russia 1. According to Basurin, the murder happened "with the involvement of the supervisor from the United States of America.”

On Friday, August 31, an explosion in a restaurant in Donetsk, killed Zakharchenko and at least three other people. Soon after, separatists announced the arrest of …

Hungary has made a decision to change the name of the position of the ministerial commissioner for Transcarpathia after Ukraine’s protest, said Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin.

 “The morning began with a conversation with my Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó. Hungarians understood us and will change the name of their commissioner for Transcarpathia. We continue constructive work on all the other issues,” he wrote on his Twitter page.

In the summer of 2018, the …

Montenegro, Albania, Norway and Ukraine supported the EU’s proposal to extend sanctions against Russia until January 31, 2019, according to a statement by High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Federica Mogherini, posted on the EU Council website.

"The Candidate Countries Montenegro and Albania, and the EFTA country Norway, member of the European Economic Area, as well as Ukraine, align themselves with this declaration. They will ensure that their national …