KIEV, March 10 – Ukraine and Turkey intend to strengthen cooperation in security, including in the Black Sea region, as well as to develop cooperation in the defense sector of both countries.

KIEV, March 11 – The Cabinet of Ministers has relaxed the rules for getting visas to enter the country and transit trips across Ukraine for 27 countries.

KIEV, March 11 – The government has budgeted UAH 257 billion expenses and UAH 110 billion of revenue from payment of the single social security tax to the Pension Fund for 2016.

KIEV, March 11 – A possible negative outcome of the April 6 Dutch referendum on the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement will not prevent Ukraine from integrating with Europe, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large Dmytro Kuleba said.

KIEV, March 11 - Ukraine's vehement former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, says the leaders who came to power following 2014's bloody upheavals are stifling the country by tolerating corruption, AP reported.

KIEV, March 11 – Nongovernmental organizations are indignant that before inspections to reveal possible frauds with receiving social payments by the internally displaced people (IDPs) the lists that are used to automatically suspend payment of the targeted monetary assistance to IDPs and any other social payments were drawn up.

KIEV, March 11 - Ukraine said Friday it had asked German doctors to check on the health of Nadiya Savchenko, who has agreed to drink water but is still not eating in protest at her Russian trial, AFP reported.

DONETSK, March 11 - Businessman Rinat Akhmetov has called on the new administration of Ukraine not to exacerbate the situation in the southeastern part of Ukraine and release Mykhailo Dobkin, former head of the Kharkiv regional administration, who has been detained.

KIEV, March 12 – Ukraine International Airlines said it has canceled its flights for the period from March 12 to March 17, inclusively, due to the fact that Simferopol International Airport has announced that flights from Kiev to Simferopol and from Simferopol to Kiev will not be serviced.

KIEV, March 13 – Ukraine's parliament has confirmed the country's course towards integration into the European Union and approved initial steps in this direction.