The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

On Thursday the Ukrainian president announced that he would send a new anti-corruption Bill to the country’s parliament.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, recently signed a decree to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning the use of anti-personnel landmines. This move follows the example of Finland, Poland, Estonia and Lithuania, who all quit the treaty in recent months.

Thousands of Ukrainians have taken to the streets over the introduction of a law which they say undermines the independence of two important anti-graft bodies.

"You get praise for serving others," not flashing wealth, author‑philanthropist and double heiress Mitzi Perdue told Fortune recently. The 84‑year‑old's remark framed a life spent cutting costs, not ribbons, despite holdings in Sheraton Hotels and poultry producer Perdue Farms. 

After a one-day summit in Beijing, the European Union insisted on the need to immediately rebalance trade relations with China.

Joining the EU is no small task, and the Ukrainian presidnet just made it more impossible.

Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul on July 23 for a third round of talks since face-to-face negotiations resumed in May. Expectations were low. Two previous rounds have yielded very few concrete results, apart from agreements on prisoner exchanges and the return of the bodies of soldiers killed in action.

The latest talks in Istanbul were followed by more prisoner exchanges, but yielded no breakthrough in ending the war.

Trump really thinks Putin will relent.

Opponents of a new law in Ukraine, which they claim undermines anti-corruption watchdogs, have called for a third day of protests

Russia launched several attacks at Ukraine, killing three and injuring several others. It comes a day after Moscow and Kyiv sat together for a third round of peace talks.