KYIV, Dec 6 – President Petro Poroshenko signed a bill on housing and utility services intended to regulate legal relations between executors and consumers of housing and utility services in Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec. 6 - Dozens of Ukrainian police in riot gear raided a protest camp outside parliament on Wednesday in a failed attempt to detain former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who was freed from custody by supporters a day earlier, Reuters reported.

KIEV , Dec. 5 – Despite an increase in recent years, funding for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is still insufficient, the country's Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

KIEV , Dec. 6 – The Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine says it shares Ukrainians' desire to protect forests and is ready to support them in that direction, but notes that a ban on timber exports will not prevent illegal logging.

KIEV , Dec. 6 – Preparations for the Eurovision song contest to be hosted by Kiev in 2017 are being financed in full and there are no reasons for the relocation of this event to another country, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 6 - Russia’s Nord Stream II gas pipeline is a threat to European security, a US diplomat said amid calls for the European Commission to intervene, EU Observer reported Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 3 – United States Secretary of State John Kerry has reaffirmed the unwavering position of the U.S. regarding the need to maintain sanctions against Russia until the full implementation of the Minsk agreements for the settlement of the situation in Ukraine's east.

KIEV, Dec. 4 – Special Advisor to the Council of Europe Secretary General for Ukraine Christos Giakoumopoulos said that adoption of the anti-corruption strategy and appointment of an anti-corruption prosecutor may ensure an efficient fight against corruption in Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 6 - International monitors in eastern Ukraine said that armed people fired into the air when they tried to approach a group of howitzers near a separatist-controlled village, in an area from which such weapons were supposed to be withdrawn under a ceasefire agreement, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Dec. 6 - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden comes to Ukraine's capital on Sunday for a visit aimed at pushing the country toward making reforms and reassuring it that the crisis in Syria is not overshadowing Washington's concerns about Ukraine, AP reported.