KYIV, Feb 12 – Ukraine’s government will launch a special agency to manage the state debt via a range of financial instruments and strategies usually used by money managers, Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk said.

LONDON, Feb 12 - Facebook on Wednesday said it had suspended a network of accounts used by Russian military intelligence to seed false narratives online targeting Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Feb 12 – The U.S. and the European Union are close to agreeing upon new sanctions that will be imposed against Russia for attacking Ukrainian naval ships in November, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 10 – President Petro Poroshenko had a meeting with Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, where they discussed the current agenda of the two countries' relations.

KIEV, Feb. 10 – European Commission Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker said that a second tranche of EUR 600 million of the macrofinancial assistance of the European Union could be provided to Ukraine in coming weeks, after the government files a bill ending the moratorium on exports of timber in Parliament.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 - The flare-up in violence in Eastern Ukraine between the government and pro-Russia separatists doesn’t appear to be part of preparations for a larger conflict, the Pentagon said.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 - The United States might waver on Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia but Europe will not, so long as a standing agreement to stop the fighting in Ukraine is not fully implemented, the European Union's foreign policy chief said Friday, The Weekly Standard reported.

KIEV, Feb. 9 – Head of Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office Yuriy Lutsenko said a criminal case has been opened into hooliganism committed by a Verkhovna Rada deputy belonging to the Poroshenko Bloc faction, Oleksiy Honcharenko. The incident occurred near the Germany embassy in Kiev.

KIEV, Feb. 9 – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) still expects the speedy finalization of a memorandum on cooperation with Ukraine, after which they will determine the date of the meeting of the IMF Board for the third revision of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said.

KIEV, Feb. 10 – Ukraine will send compensation to the Pierson Allard Museum in the Netherlands for storing the Scythian gold collection after the court ruling in favor of Ukraine taking effect, Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko said.