KYIV, Sept. 25 - President Petro Poroshenko has asked Canada to restart a program to supply the Ukrainian military with satellite imagery to monitor Russian and separatist rebel troop movements, CBC News reported Monday.

KYIV, Sept 26 – Ukraine is still seeking to change pension reform, but is awaiting a response from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Minister of Social Policy Andriy Reva said.

KYIV, Sept. 26 - Hungary has pledged to block Ukraine's further integration with Europe after Kyiv enacted a controversial education law that reduces the use of minority languages in schools.

KYIV, Sept 26 – Ukraine’s economic growth may be better than expected this year after the country has adjusted to a trade blockade with Russian-backed separatist enclaves, a central bank official said Tuesday.

KYIV, Sept 27 - Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko and the Ukrainian office of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) signed a memorandum on the fight against the AIDS epidemic on Tuesday, September 26, Kyiv City State Administration reported.

KYIV, Sept 26 – Ukraine is behind in several areas in the fulfillment of the EU Association Agreement, including transportation, environmental policy, intellectual property protection and improvement in customs legislation, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said.

KYIV, Sept. 27 - The top U.S. military commander has said he recommended that the United States provide lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine to help the country "protect [its] sovereignty" amid a conflict with Russia-backed separatists, RFE/RL reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 26 – Half of Ukrainians are against granting special status to Donbas, according to an opinion poll conducted by the Razumkov Centre for Sociological Research in September.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Ukraine, which lost three places in the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) published by the World Economic Forum a year ago, has fallen six places more and now ranks 85th among 138 countries.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Israeli businessmen are interested in the privatization in Ukraine to take place in 2016 and 2017, President Petro Poroshenko said.