UNITED NATIONS, Sept 7 - The U.S. said Wednesday it has evidence that “hundreds of thousands” of Ukrainian citizens have been interrogated, detained and forcibly deported to Russia in “a series of horrors” overseen by officials from Russia’s presidency.

KYIV, Sept 6 – Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denys Monastyrsky named the priority projects of the Interior Ministry, namely: construction of the state border, "community police officer," custody records, creation of a European firefighting hub and voluntary fire brigades, "safe school" and digitalization.

KYIV, Sept 7 – Senior Advisor for Energy Security to U.S. Secretary of State Amos Hochstein will visit Kyiv this week to discuss the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Advisor to the Ukrainian Energy Minister Lana Zerkal has said.

KYIV, Sept 7 - Russia's FSB security service on Tuesday accused Ukraine of organizing an attack on a gas pipeline in Russian-annexed Crimea, an allegation rejected by Kyiv which said Moscow was trying to punish prominent Crimean Tatar figures, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Sept 7 – Ukraine is performing benchmarks to receive tranches of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and hopes a meeting of the fund's online mission will be carried out in the near future, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said.

BERLIN, Sept 7 - Chancellor Angela Merkel does not rule out imposing sanctions on a pipeline set to bring Russian gas to Germany in response to the suspected poisoning of a Kremlin critic with a Soviet-style nerve agent, Reuters reported Monday citing her chief spokesman.

KYIV, Sept. 5 – International Monetary Fund (IMF) First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton will be in Kyiv on an official visit on September 12 through September 14, the press service of the IMF has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Sept 6 – The Finance Ministry has submitted the draft law on the 2018 national budget to the Cabinet of Ministers for consideration, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said Wednesday.

KYIV, Sept 7 – The share of the European Union (EU) of Ukraine's foreign trade has reached 40%, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"Recently the [Ukraine-EU] Association Agreement took effect. Thanks to consent of the European Union the year before last to temporarily apply it we can enjoy the preliminary results as growth of our export to the European Union. In particular, in H1 2017, this export grew by 23%, and the EU's share of Ukraine's foreign trade has finally reached 40%," the president said delivering the annual message to the Verkhovna Rada on Thursday.

KYIV, Sept 7 - President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday Ukraine’s top priority is to build closest approach to the criteria for membership in the European Union and NATO.