The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has set the official forex rate for June 7 at Hr 27.29 to the U.S. dollar, which made the country’s national currency stronger by five kopiykas. Read more here. The post UNIAN: Hryvnia strengthens to US dollar...

Belarus will be hard hit by both EU sanctions and the deterioration of economic and political relations with Ukraine due to the balance of power in trade relations between the two countries. Read more here. The post UkrInform: Expert says Belarus wil...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on June 7 formalizing Russia’s exit from the Open Skies Treaty, an international pact that allows surveillance flights over fellow members’ military facilities, after the United States’ withdraw...

Germany said Ukraine should remain a transit country for Russian gas, the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper reported, after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said it would depend on the former Soviet republic showing ‘goodwill’ towar...

Ukraine registered on June 7 the lowest daily number of new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours for nearly a year, the health ministry data showed. Read more here. The post Reuters: Ukraine reports lowest number of COVID-19 cases in about a ye...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he learned through the press — not any direct heads-up — that U.S. President Biden had decided to stop trying to block a Russian pipeline that Ukraine sees as a dire national security threat. Read more ...

Ukraine has registered 535 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on June 7. The total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic is over 2.2 million. In the past 24 hours, 1,743 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 33 have died. Sinc...

Belgrade’s Torlak Institute for Virology, Vaccines, and Serums officially launched the production of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine late on June 4, making Serbia the first state in Europe to be producing the Russian vaccine. Read more here. The post ...

Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov does not rule out that Russia may organize provocations after the launch of Nord Stream 2 in order to justify the refusal to transit gas through Ukraine. Read more here. The post UkrInform: Avakov ...

Families of people who died in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 said they were preparing to hear painful details when a critical stage of a trial over the crash starts on June 7. Read more here. The post Reuters: MH17 plane crash fam...