KYIV, March 11 – Deputy Prime Minister Pavlo Rozenko has said that the issue of legalization of medical cannabis requires substantial debate at all levels.

KYIV, March 11 - Austrian reporter Christian Wehrschuetz said he feared being attacked by Ukrainian nationalists over reporting critical of the government in Kyiv, according to the Ukrainian Security Service. Now they're using a one-year entry ban to keep him out of the country, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, March 6 - President Petro Poroshenko, in a phone call with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, asked the U.S. to increase pressure against Russia to start the peace process in Donbas.

KYIV, March 10 - President Petro Poroshenko has reiterated on Saturday that Ukraine is seeking a Membership Action Plan (MAP), a formal step toward joining NATO, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, March 6 - President Petro Poroshenko said he hopes that Parliament and international partners will reach a compromise on the final text of the bill on the Anti-Corruption Court.

KYIV, March 6 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has drawn up some initiatives how to cut the cost of restructuring of non-performing loans (NPL) by banks under the law on financing restructuring and in general to increase their interest in this restructuring, Deputy NBU Governor Kateryna Rozhkova said.

MOSCOW, March 10 – The Zasiadko mine in Donetsk, where an explosion recently occurred, is not working now and it can only resume operations after a technical commission conducts an investigation, Alexander Sin, the head of the department of militarized mine rescue units of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, said.

KIEV, March 10 – The Defense Ministry will allocate UAH 14 billion this year to develop armaments, several times the sum allocated last year.

"In 2015, under the budgetary figures, the Defense Ministry will allocate UAH 14 billion to develop armaments. This is almost one third of the defense budget," defense minister's spokeswoman Viktoria Kushnir said at a briefing in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, March 11 – The United States will provide Ukraine with additional non-lethal assistance in the field of security.

KIEV, March 11 - The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (OSCE SMM) has assessed the situation to be calm in Luhansk region, while fighting in and around the Donetsk airport and east of Mariupol has continued.