Ukraine

KIEV, September 23. /TASS/: Andrei Yermak, Aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, positively evaluated cooperation with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak on the exchange of detainees, he said in an interview with Ukrainian online media outlet Levy Bereg (Left Bank) published on Monday.

KIEV (Reuters) - An aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was quoted on Monday as saying any investigation in Ukraine would be conducted transparently, after U.S. media reports said President Donald Trump asked Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden, a rival in next year’s U.S. election.

Trump’s July 25 call with Zelenskiy stoked controversy in Washington after reports that Trump repeatedly asked the Ukrainian leader to investigate whether Biden, the Democratic front-runner in next year’s election, misused his position when he was vice president.

KIEV, September 20. /TASS/: Ukraine’s state-run defense concern Ukroboronprom is considering the possibility of selling the unfinished Ukraina missile cruiser, currently kept at the Nikolayev Shipyard, the company’s press service said.

"There’s no need for Ukraine to have a cruiser of this size, that’s why we will consider the possibility of selling this cruiser. We will build new ships: of a smaller size but in bigger numbers, according to the needs of our armed forces," the press service quoted Ukroboronprom head Aivaras Abromavicius as saying in an interview with DW.

KIEV, September 20. /TASS/: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has appointed Valery Yevdokimov Director of the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service, the executive order was published on the president’s official website on Friday.

"To appoint Valery Yevdokimov Chairperson of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine," the document says.

Yevdokimov previously served as deputy chairperson of the service.

KIEV, September 18. /TASS/: Commander of the so-called Joint Forces Operation (JFO) in Donbass Vladimir Kravchenko stated that the Ukrainian side started preparations for the withdrawal of the army along the entire contact line in the east of the country. According to the JFO headquarters, he made this statement on Wednesday at a meeting with Permanent Representative of the United Nations Development Program in Ukraine Osnat Lubrani in Kiev.

DONETSK, September 15. /TASS/: Ukraine’s statements on refusal to provide a special status to Donbass are a signal of its deliberate plan to sabotage peaceful settlement, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic's Foreign Minister Natalya Nikonorova said on Sunday.

KIEV, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the United States for unblocking the allocation of military assistance to Ukraine at the 16th Yalta European Strategy Summit in Kiev on Friday.

Zelensky said he held several phone conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump.

KIEV, September 13. /TASS/: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has said that Ukraine will be striving to bring Crimea back "not only with words."

"As for Crimea, I think it will be most difficult to reclaim Crimea. I have not had a Normandy Four meeting or held talks with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin yet. We will fight to bring Crimea back. And not only with words," he told the Yalta European Strategy forum in Kiev on Friday.

KIEV, September 12. /TASS/: Ukrainian lawyer Valentin Rybin believes that the role of Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) citizen Vladimir Tsemakh in the investigation into the 2014 Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine was greatly exaggerated.

KIEV, September 9. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky held a polite and equal discussion on the issue of prisoner exchange, Ukrainian Presidential Aide Andrei Yermak said in an interview with Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper that was published on Monday.