KYIV, May 7 – Danylo Hetmantsev, Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s advisor on economics, finance and taxation, has proposed to exempt retirees and 100% state employees from general declaration of income.

KYIV, May 7 – The focus of Ukrainian authorities on the parliamentary election would not allow the country to meet the conditions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2019 and receive a tranche under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), according to JP Morgan experts.

KYIV, May 7 – Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin the G7 and the European Union to introduce new sanctions against Russia for its decision to give Russian passports to Ukrainian citizens living in Russia-occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

KYIV, May 7 - U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch has been recalled by the Trump administration two months early in what top Democratic lawmakers called a “political hit job,” Foreign Policy reported Tuesday.

KYIV, May 6 – The Finance Ministry will use UAH 64.9 billion in profits from the central bank as a payment to bridge budget gap in 2019.

The ministry also reported that national budget revenues in January-April 2019, according to the updated target, were underperformed by 4.3%, while the increase compared to last year's figure was 18.2%.

KYIV, May 7 – European Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn has met with President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv.

KYIV, May 8 – President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy has discussed with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland plans regarding the fight against corruption and the Minsk format for resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

KYIV, May 8 – Exiled Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskiy, who is believed to be the key financial backer of President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said he plans to return to Ukraine as soon as the new president is sworn in.

KYIV, May 9 - International media freedom watchdogs said they were “appalled” by the recent brutal attack on Ukrainian journalist Vadym Komarov and urged the country’s authorities to do their utmost to ensure that it does not go unpunished, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, May 8 – Russia seeks to destabilize Ukraine and return it to the Soviet Union, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"He [Russian President Vladimir Putin] wants to return the Soviet Union. Poroshenko answered in an interview to the question what is considered to be the biggest catastrophe of the 20th century – it is not World War II, not Hiroshima, not Chornobyl, but the collapse of the USSR.