KYIV, Jan 10 – The International Monetary Fund has increased pressure to force Ukraine start selling state-owned assets to increase private investments and accelerate economic growth, an official said Thursday.

KYIV, Jan 2 – President Petro Poroshenko urged the government to boost economic growth in 2018, and said the war in Donbas has been significantly slowing the economy down.

KYIV, Jan 9 – President Petro Poroshenko stressed the country's membership in the European Union and in NATO remain Ukraine's strategic goal, but this is not viable in 2018.

KYIV, Jan 9 – Ukraine halted economic slowdown but its current pace of development is not enough to achieve stability and improve the quality of life, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KYIV, Jan. 9 - A Ukrainian court has arrested a suspect in the killing of activist lawyer Iryna Nozdrovska that sparked public outrage and underscored concerns about the justice system in Ukraine, RFE/RL reported Tuesday.

KIEV, Jan. 10 – Ukraine expects the tribunal within the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which will study the issues related to Crimea, to start work in the middle of 2017, Deputy Foreign Minister for European Integration Olena Zerkal said.

KIEV, Jan. 10 – Kiev's Pechersky district court at the start of the New Year authorized the arrest of deposed ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and former ex-Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko in the so-called "church case," according to a report published by the Kiev-based Ukrayinska Pravda Internet publication.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - Senior U.S. Republican and Democratic senators will introduce legislation on Tuesday seeking to impose a wide range of sanctions on Russia over its cyber activities and actions in Syria and Ukraine, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Jan. 9 – The establishment of a free trade area between Ukraine and the European Union is compatible with a CIS free trade area, but is incompatible with Ukraine's accession to the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union, says the Ukrainian envoy to the European Union, Ambassador Kostiantyn Yeliseyev.

KIEV, Jan. 9 – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara will meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Chernivtsi on January 14 to discuss a wide range of bilateral issues.