KIEV, Oct. 7 – An official Ukrainian delegation including National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva and Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko will take part in the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank which will be held in Lima, Peru, on October 8-12.

KIEV, Oct. 7 - Ukraine may start Russian natural gas imports within days and may do so even without formally signing an agreement with Russia, Volodymyr Demchyshyn, the energy minister, said Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 7 - President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday a "real truce" had begun in eastern Ukraine but a long-lasting peace with pro-Kremlin insurgents would still take some time, AFP reported.

ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 6 – Ukraine could run into gas supply problems given an unusually cold winter because it doesn't have enough gas in underground storage, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said.

MINSK, Oct. 6 - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is convinced that the Ukrainian crisis gave an impetus to the improvement of the relations between his country and the West.

MILAN, Oct. 6 - Europe's top energy official said on Monday he expected an interim gas deal between Russia and Ukraine to be completed this month, enabling Russian gas deliveries to Ukraine this winter and curbing the threat of cuts to Europe, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 3 – President Petro Poroshenko discussed EU integration and cooperation at a meeting with Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta and Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leanca, the presidential press service reported.

KIEV, Oct. 6 – Two unmanned aerial vehicles to support the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in the confrontation zone in eastern Ukraine have been delivered to Ukraine, the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council reports.

KIEV, Oct. 6 – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk and U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland have discussed the fulfillment of Ukrainian-U.S. agreements aimed at support of reform in Ukraine and further gas talks with Russia.

KIEV, Oct. 6 – Ukraine's Economic Development and Trade Ministry has published its own list of imported goods for possible withdrawal from Ukraine's free trade regime with Russia, the ministry said in a posting on its Web site.