KIEV, Oct. 6 - A joint mission of the United Nations, World Bank and European Union that had spent one week in Ukraine at the request of the Ukrainian government has presented its recommendations for key measures to rebuild Donbas, the war-ravaged industrial area in eastern Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Oct. 6 – Ukraine is ready to settle the $3 billion in eurobonds that Russia purchased, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said on the air of TV program Shuster Live.

KIEV, Oct. 7 – President Petro Poroshenko said that there can be no agreement about redrawing Ukraine's borders.

"The state border is a key element of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

KIEV, Oct. 7 - Ukraine's pro-Western government pressed ahead to secure new laws to tackle top-level government corruption on Tuesday, hoping to ease public discontent before an election from which it wants backing for its plan to end a separatist rebellion, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 4 - More than 40% of Ukrainians would vote for Ukraine's accession to the European Union if a referendum on the country's accession to the EU or the Customs Union were held this Sunday, according to a survey conducted by Kiev International Institute of Sociology.

TALLINN, Oct. 7 - The signing of an association and free trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine in Vilnius in November and the initialing of similar accords with Moldova and Georgia will not put and end to the EU's Eastern Partnership program, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said.

MINSK, Oct. 7 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that the Ukrainian government is studying the experience of the Customs Union and plans to press on with its bid for observer status in the Moscow-led group.

KIEV, Oct. 7 – A top Ukrainian official said Monday he expected “no cataclysms” with Russian natural gas supplies to Europe this winter, but said there were “discussions” on the matter underway between Kiev and Moscow.

MINSK, Oct. 7 – Belarus, a founding member of the Moscow-led Customs Union, said it sees “no problem” with Ukraine’s signing of free trade and political association agreements with the European Union next month.

KIEV, Oct. 5 – The government will form negotiation groups in the near future to start drawing up a new agreement on a free trade area with the Commonwealth of Independent States, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Kliuyev said.