KIEV, Sept. 11 – President Petro Poroshenko expects the Ukrainian economy to start recovering in 2016.

"I expect that we will be able to show GDP growth in 2016," he said at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) in Kiev on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 10 – The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging Russia to release Estonian citizen Eston Kohver, and the Ukrainian citizens Oleh Sentsov, Nadia Savchenko and Oleksandr Kolchenko, and has also condemned the "blatant violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine and Estonia" by Russia.

KIEV, Sept. 10 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said he is hoping that the European Union will not take into account issues relating to the new wave of migration to Europe when deciding on the issue of granting a visa-free regime to Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 11 – The Finance Ministry has proposed that a tax on luxury cars irrespective of their type of engine should be introduced, Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said at a briefing in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 13 - Ukraine and Turkey will seek to decide if they can join forces in building a liquefied natural gas terminal, President Viktor Yanukovych said Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 13 - Ukraine will be forced to seriously conserve energy in the fourth quarter when Russia’s natural gas price increases to $432 per 1,000 cubic meters, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko said Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 13 - Jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday said she several times detected unusually high levels of radiation in her hospital quarters, accusing President Viktor Yanukovych of using Stalinist methods against her.

KIEV, Sept. 12 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has described Europe's criticism regarding the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko as unreasonable.

KIEV, Sept. 13 - Ukraine has been scrambling to secure supplies of Caspian Sea crude via its oil pipelines to the European Union after Russia virtually suspended its shipments via these pipelines earlier this year.

Ukraine has already purchased a test-run shipment of crude from Azerbaijan and has been now holding talks with Polish, Slovakian, Czech and Belarussian oil shippers to make sure the test-run is smooth.

ASHGABAT, Sept. 13 — President Viktor Yanukovych traveled Monday to energy-rich Turkmenistan seeking a new source of natural gas supplies as Ukraine’s relations with Russia, its only gas supplier, continued to deteriorate.