KIEV, April 13 – A moratorium to settle payments on foreign debt will be revoked if agreements with holders of sovereign notes are reached but the noteholders have not yet given their consent for Ukraine's debt rescheduling, Ukraine's Finance Ministry said.

KIEV, April 14 - Parliament approved presidential ally Volodymyr Hroysman as prime minister on Thursday in the biggest political shakeup since a 2014 uprising brought in a pro-Western leadership, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 14 - Ukraine must agree a restructuring deal with creditors to plug a $15-billion funding gap before an International Monetary Fund review of its bailout program in June, an IMF official said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

BERLIN, April 14 - Foreign ministers from Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine called for an end to the renewed heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine following tough talks in Berlin on Monday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 14 – The UN stands ready to provide $300 million in aid to Ukraine, according to Regional Development Minister Hennadiy Zubko.

"The UN has made a preliminary announcement that it could make about $300 million in aid available to Ukraine," Zubko said.

KIEV, April 11 – The devaluation of the hryvnia on the interbank market to lower than UAH 13/$1 is a dangerous thing, said presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko, a former head of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, April 14 – The devaluation of the hryvnia is linked to Russia's aggression, protests in the southeast and a lack of forex reserves, although the expected a quick decision of the International Monetary Fund on the provision of financial aid to Ukraine will stabilize the exchange rate, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.

MINSK, April 14 - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has expressed his negative attitude to the idea of transforming Ukraine into a federal state.

"I am categorically opposed," he said in a Sunday interview with an evening current events show of Russian NTV channel commenting on the opinion that federalization could prevent the split of Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, April 14 - President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a tense phone call on Monday that Moscow would face further costs for its actions in Ukraine and should use its influence to get separatists in the country to stand down, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 14 - Pro-Russian separatists on Monday ignored an ultimatum to leave occupied government buildings in eastern Ukraine and instead seized more buildings as the government failed to follow through on a threatened military crackdown, Reuters reported.