Volodymyr Groysman

Ukraine's Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman threatened to quit on June 4 if parliament failed to enable the creation of a special anti-corruption court, which it is due to vote on June 7.

Officials from Moldova and Ukraine signed two cooperation documents in Kiev on Thursday evening to liberalise ground and air transport between the two countries - part of attempts to boost economic cooperation.

The new agreements will reduce bureaucracy and eliminate authorisations so people and goods can travel more freely between Ukraine and Moldova.

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated after massive explosions and a blaze at a military ammunition depot in central Ukraine.

Ukranian emergency services said the blasts occurred at a military base near Kalynivka in the Vynnytsya region, 270km (168 miles) west of Kiev.

One person was injured, it said.

A deal between Turkey and Ukraine allowing their citizens to travel to each other's country without passports entered into force early June 1, said Andrii Sybiha, Kyiv's ambassador in Ankara.      

Turkey has become the largest tourism destination for Ukrainian tourists as almost 75 percent of 1.5 million Ukrainian tourists that travel overseas visit Turkey, according to a leading Turkish tourism association. 

Turkey and Ukraine have signed an agreement allowing their citizens to travel to each other's countries with only an identity card, in a bid to boost tourism. 

The agreement was inked on March 14 during Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman's visit to Ankara upon Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım's invitation. 

He doesn't have much time left before he leaves office in a few weeks, but U.S. President Barack Obama got in one final, parting shot against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in revenge for the latter's speech in Congress in March 2015.

On Dec. 23, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end to illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

BELGRADE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled the visit of his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Groysman scheduled for the next week over Kiev support for the damning UNSC resolution on the Israeli settlement in Palestine, local media reported Saturday.

Ukraine's new Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said his country will neither hold negotiations nor purchase fuels from Russia.

"We can build relations with any neighbor if they are not aggressors or murderers. If they are... what could we talk about?" UNIAN news agency quotes him as telling TV station 24.

The Parliament in Ukraine on Thursday confirmed Volodymyr Groysman as the country's new Prime Minister, following the resignation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk earlier this week.

Groysman, until now Parliament Speaker since 2014, was backed by 257 MPs, out of 390 who voted.