KIEV, March 6 – A $215 million loan issued by the World Bank for the Serving People, Improving Health Project for Ukraine together with the national budget funds will create a basis for launching the health care system reform in Ukraine scheduled for 2016, Health Minister Alexander Kvitashvili said.

BRUSSELS, March 6 – Ukraine wants to reach an agreement with Russia on "summer package" gas supplies this month but sees no need for making a quick deal, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said to journalists after trilateral Russia-Ukraine-EU talks had ended.

NEW YORK (UN), March 10 - The humanitarian situation in Ukraine remains appalling, with 5 million citizens in need of humanitarian aid, said John Ging, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

KIEV, March 10 – President Petro Poroshenko said Ukrainian troops have managed to stop the enemy offensive in eastern Ukraine.

"Indeed, we can state that we have managed to stop the attacks and offensive operations of the aggressor," Poroshenko said in an interview with Pershyi Natsionalnyi Channel on Monday night.

KIEV, March 10 - Ukraine intends to protect human rights and its assets in Crimea and to eventually regain control over the peninsula, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, March 10 – The discussion of Ukraine's request to provide financial aid to the country under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement instead of the Stand-By Arrangement approved in spring 2014 is the only issue on the agenda of the meeting of the Executive Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund scheduled for March 11.

KIEV, March 10 - As the war goes on in Ukraine, a quarter of the country's industrial enterprises has halted production and one can hardly expect foreign investment, but defense spending will be maintained, said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, March 10 - Ukraine's military said on Tuesday pro-Russian rebels were amassing heavy weapons in depots around separatist-held Donetsk city despite a ceasefire deal, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, March 7 – The United Kingdom, simultaneously with the EU's decision to impose sanctions on 18 Ukrainians, including former President Viktor Yanukovych, is planning to freeze their assets, conduct an investigation and subsequently return misappropriated funds to Ukraine, the UK government has said in a statement.

KIEV, March 7 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that the total amount of the EU's macro-financial assistance to Ukraine will reach $15 billion.