NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is to visit Ukraine on September 21-22 at the invitation of President Petro Poroshenko.
"During the visit the secretary-general and the president will launch joint Ukraine-NATO exercises for Ukraine-2015 emergency relief at the Yavoriv training ground (Lviv Oblast)," said a statement issued by the presidential press service. "Also, at president’s invitation, the alliance head will take part in a National Security Council meeting on reforming Ukraine's security and defense sector."
Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin called Stoltenberg's upcoming visit "significant and symbolic." According to him, the visit may be marked by establishing a NATO embassy in Ukraine.
Here's an item from Radio Prague on the Czech Republic's ratification of the Association Agreement with Kyiv:
Members of the Czech lower house of parliament approved an EU association agreement with Ukraine after several hours of rowdy debate on Thursday night. The final vote was 107 in favour with 29 against. Most of those opposed to the agreement came from the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia. Social Democrat members of parliament though also criticized the stance of Ukrainian nationalists and the continuing influence of oligarchs in Ukraine. The Czech Republic is one of the last four EU states to ratify the agreement. The upper house of parliament, the Senate, did so already in November last year. The Czech head of state still has to give his approval to the agreement.