The Ukrainian army said Wednesday it had suspended Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a spokeswoman for Ukraine's territorial defence forces from the United States, over statements that the hierarchy said were not approved.
Ukraine denounced what it called "fake elections" being held by Moscow on its occupied territory Friday, while Russian air strikes across the country killed four people and wounded dozens more.
Ukraine said Tuesday that one man was killed and six wounded, including two children, by "massive" Russian air strikes on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.
Ukraine said on Friday it had bombed a Russian base in the town of Energodar, near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant which is being assessed by United Nations inspectors because of safety concerns.
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg will make his first visit to Ukraine later this month, Kiev's foreign minister said Monday, as efforts to solve the conflict between pro-Russian rebels and government forces pick up pace.
Ukraine's armed forces said Wednesday they had destroyed 17 out of 24 Russian drones launched overnight, while an oil refinery was hit, according to a regional governor.
Ukraine said Sunday the sixth and final reactor at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in the south of the country was no longer generating electricity.
Ukraine said Saturday that it needed at least $120 billion next year to fight Russia's invasion, and would need a similar amount to maintain its military, even if the war ended.
The Ukrainian government accused Russia on Thursday of massing around 4,000 troops on the border of Russian-annexed Crimea and Ukraine, as multiple Crimean residents also reported seeing troop movements.
Kiev said on Wednesday it had struck an initial agreement with pro-Russian insurgents to withdraw smaller weapons from the buffer zone splitting eastern rebel lands from the rest of Ukraine.
Negotiators sent by Kiev and pro-Russian rebels on Wednesday for the first time agreed to pull back troops from three areas along the battered frontline in east Ukraine.
Ukraine said on Wednesday it may deliver the world's largest jet -- originally developed for the Soviet Union's abandoned space shuttle programme -- to China within the next five years.
Ukraine's embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant's last working reactor has been switched off from the grid, the Ukrainian power plants operator said on Monday.
Ukraine's newly appointed Defence Minister Rustem Umerov vowed on Wednesday to recapture all territory under Russian military control, in his first comments in the new role.
Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko said Monday that only the West -- particularly eventual membership in NATO -- can safeguard the country's independence from Russia.
Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is receiving power from the national grid once again, the UN's atomic agency (IAEA) said Saturday, after it was cut off from external power, raising the risk of an accident.
