KIEV, Feb. 10 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and European Council President Donald Tusk during a meeting in Brussels on Thursday discussed introduction of the visa-free regime and the process of ratification of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, as well as the security situation in eastern Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 12 – Ukrainian authorities have successfully ended negotiations with the mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the new four-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) worth $17.5 billion, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 12 - Ukraine is set to receive about $40 billion in funding over the next four years, nearly half of which will come from the International Monetary Fund, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in Brussels as talks on the Ukraine conflict resumed in Minsk.

MINSK, Feb. 12 - Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine agreed to a deal offering a "glimmer of hope" for an end to conflict in eastern Ukraine, but the United States and NATO said further intense fighting on Thursday ran counter to the spirit of the accord, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – The planned decentralization of the Ukrainian governance system will be nothing like federalization, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"The decentralization that we are devising will have nothing in common with federalization. Ukraine has been and will remain to be a unitary state.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – The temporary weakening of the hryvnia is a natural reaction of the market to the switch to the flexible exchange rate formation, although demand and supply on the interbank market will tend towards equilibrium, which will positively influence the exchange rate, NBU Governor Valeriya Gontareva said at a meeting with Ukrainian bankers on Monday.

SIMFEROPOL, Feb. 11 – Representatives of the Crimean Tatar diaspora in Turkey have said that the annexation of Crimea by Russia, which they call 'the second occupation', is illegal and will never be recognized.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – Ukraine's falling credit ratings indicates that its economy is one step away from irreversible downfall, Serhiy Tyhypko, deputy head of the ruling Regions Party's and former Deputy Prime Minister, said.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 11 – EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton has repeated the offer of the international community's assistance in de-escalating the situation in Ukraine, but said that the EU adheres to the principle of non-interference.

KIEV, Feb. 12 – Ukrainian gas transport system moving Russian gas to Europe was put on alert on Tuesday to prevent any possible acts of sabotage, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry reported.