KIEV, May 7 – President Petro Poroshenko met with Moldovan Prime Minister Chiril Gaburici on Wednesday and discussed bilateral cooperation with the EU, the press service of the Ukrainian President reported.

KIEV, May 7 - Armed rebel formations in Donbas number over 40,000, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, May 5 – Ukraine and Georgia expect from the Riga summit of the Eastern Partnership scheduled for May 21-22 a positive signal regarding the introduction of the visa-free regime with the European Union.

GDANSK, May 7 - President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday criticized what he termed a policy of appeasement towards Russia in the context of the separatist conflict in Ukraine's east, AFP reported.

BRUSSELS, May 7 - The EU said Thursday it would not bow to Russian demands to delay further the planned January 2016 implementation of a free trade deal with Ukraine which is bitterly opposed by Moscow, AFP reported.

KIEV, May 7 – Ukraine plans to raise end-user gas and heating tariffs by 40% on average, effective May 1, 2015, and thereafter the country will raise these tariffs by 20% on average in each of 2016 and 2017, effective May 1, according to an April 22 International Monetary Fund report.

KIEV, May 7 - A gas price dispute with Russia must be resolved by June so Ukraine can guarantee stable flows to Europe and avoid a new gas war, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan said, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, May 7 - Russian President Vladimir Putin called on pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine to postpone a vote on secession just five days before it was to be held, potentially pulling Ukraine back from the brink of violent dismemberment, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 5 – The 'Popular Referendum' poll held in Donetsk and Luhansk regions on May 4, 2014, shows that local residents have voted in support of Ukraine's territorial integrity and stand for territorial communities' wider authority, the Democratic Alliance Party's press service said on Monday.

KIEV, April 30 – The board of directors of the Ukrainian-Brazilian Alcantara Cyclone Space company met in Kiev on April 23-24 to discuss a project for the creation of a Cyclone-4 space rocket complex at the Alcantara launch site in Brazil, according to the State Space Agency of Ukraine.