The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has sent 12 trucks with humanitarian aid to the embattled eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service said on Friday

Russia welcomes the progress in the Kiev-Donbas detainee exchange, which was achieved following the latest Normandy Four summit in Paris, the Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said on Thursday

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy informed German Chancellor Angela Merkel by phone that work was underway to form new lists for the prisoner exchange in Donbas

A militiaman of the self-declared Luhansk Peoples' Republic (LPR) have been killed in Ukrainian gunfire that targeted the Kalynove settlement, an LPR representative told Sputnik at the Joint Center for Ceasefire Control and Coordination

Ukraine has had a big year, which saw the formalization of an independent church, presidential and parliamentary elections that toppled the old political elite, continuous efforts to ensure secure energy supplies and gas transit to Europe, and the seeds sown for the country to succeed in its biggest quest of achieving peace in Donbas

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes the recent simultaneous release and transfer of detained persons between Ukraine and the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, and notes improved conditions for its access to detainees, Roger Baptiste Ruffy, the deputy head of the ICRC delegation in Ukraine, told Sputnik in an interview on Friday