KYIV, Dec 13 - Germany is committed to safeguarding Ukraine's role as a transit route for gas into Europe, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday, as Russian troop movements along the Ukrainian border increased pressure on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Dec 10 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) preliminarily estimates the loss of Ukraine's GDP from the enhanced quarantine in January 2021 at 0.2%, Deputy NBU Governor Dmytro Sologub has said.

KYIV, Dec 10 – The National Bank of Ukraine, at a board meeting on Thursday, has left key policy rate unchanged at 6% as consumer inflation has been moving in line with expectations towards the end of the year.

KYIV, Dec 11 – Ukraine will tap on its massive diaspora across the world for help in bringing in foreign investments and promoting trade to expand the country’s exports, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Friday.

KYIV, Dec 13 – Members of Parliament's committee for agricultural policy and land relations have signed a bill extending a moratorium to sell farmland for one year, while the law on farmland turnover could be passed in 2020, Deputy Head of the committee Oleksandr Bakumenko said.

BRUSSELS, Dec 13 - NATO has pledged support for Ukraine's navy more than two weeks after Russia seized three of Kyiv's naval ships and arrested 24 sailors in the Kerch Strait that links the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov.

KYIV, Dec 8 – General Colonel Nikolai Tkachev, chief inspector of Russia's central military sector, was identified as a key figure in downing of MH17 Malaysian airliner over Donetsk region in July 2014, according to investigative report.

KYIV, Dec. 11 - Ukrainian opposition figure Mikheil Saakashvili was freed from detention on Monday, after a Ukrainian judge turned down the prosecutors’ request to place him under house arrest - the latest twist in his dramatic standoff with the authorities, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Dec 11 – First Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Iryna Gerashchenko said she believes lawmakers will adopt an anti-corruption court bill in the first reading by February 2018.

KYIV, Dec 11 – Serhiy Kurchenko, a wealthy businessman linked to former President Viktor Yanukovych, denied reports from prosecutors that he had financed an opposition rally in Ukraine.