KYIV, Sept 6 - Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and Commandant of the Turkish Coast Guard Ahmet Kendir have agreed on joint patrolling the Black Sea.

KYIV, Sept 6 - The National Bank of Ukraine considers relevant the July forecast of inflation reduction to 8.9% in 2018, its return to the target range at the end of 2019 and the medium-term target of 5% in 2020.

KYIV, Sept 6 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) expects that negotiations with the mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which started working in Ukraine on September 6, will be successful, head of the central bank Yakiv Smolii has stated.

KYIV, Sep 7 – Ukraine's SBU Security Service has stopped the activity of an international hacker group that specialized in stealing and legalizing funds taken from banking institutions in more than 20 countries. Members of the group live in Kyiv, Chernivtsi, Odesa, and Voznesensk.

KYIV, Sept 7 - Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman assured lawmakers that Ukraine will have enough fuel and energy resources to go through upcoming winter.

KYIV, Sept. 8 - The Russian Orthodox Church on Friday slammed its Istanbul-based rival for sending representatives to Ukraine and vowed to retaliate as the two churches are locked in negotiations over Ukraine’s religious future, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

KYIV, Sep 8 – Ukraine's state-owned arms group Ukroboronprom seeks to participate in a program with Poland's armed forces to modernize T-72 tanks according to NATO standards.

KYIV, Sept. 10 - Mikheil Saakashvili, a popular former governor of Odessa region who is now challenging President Petro Poroshenko, has crossed into Ukraine, helped by hundreds of his supporters.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – Rescuers from the Ukrainian State Emergency Service in Uman, Cherkasy region, have been on high alert since September 9 as the town prepares to welcome thousands of Hasids for the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

KIEV, Sept. 10 – The Ukrainian government has registered a package consisting of three draft laws in Parliament required for the successful restructuring of the country's foreign commercial debt to the Ukrainian parliament and a draft resolution on the provision of financial stabilization as a part of the implementation of the Extended Fund Facility program of the International Monetary Fund, according to a posting on the parliament's website.