KYIV, Aug 31 – Ukraine seeks to create EUR 100 million Energy Efficiency Fund that will be backed by the European Union, according to Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.

KYIV, Sept 1 - President Petro Poroshenko has ordered the Cabinet of Ministers to take measures to improve the legislation on the procedures governing the stay in Ukraine of foreigners, including citizens of Russia, within a month's time.

KYIV, Sept 1 - Foreigners traveling to Ukraine will be required to submit their fingerprints, but not to show biometric passports, as part of measures tightening border controls under the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) resolution which came into effect, the head of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service said.

KYIV, Sept. 4 - Ukraine may be able to do without borrowing from the International Monetary Fund after the current $17.5 billion four-year lending program expires, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said Monday.

KYIV, Sept 4 – Parliamentary Speaker Andriy Parubiy has said the priorities in the work of the Verkhovna Rada in autumn this year are the adoption of five reforms: educational, medical, judicial, pension and the reform of parliament.

MOSCOW, Sept. 5 - Russia will ask the U.N. Security Council to send peacekeepers to patrol the front line in eastern Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday, a development greeted by Germany as a new opportunity for détente, AP reported.

KIEV, Sept. 6 - Barring of Ukrainian manufacturers from the Russian market was an economic shock for Kiev, which inflicted losses of at least $15 billion, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Sept. 5 - Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Odessa border guards have freed people earlier taken hostage during a mutiny onboard a Turkish vessel, the SBU press service said on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 6 - It has become increasingly difficult for Ukraine to secure Western support in its fight against Russian aggression and a full-scale invasion from Russia cannot be ruled out, President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 5 – The international commission on the inquiry into the downing of the Malaysian Boeing 777 in July 2014 will present a report on September 28 which will specify the type and the launch site of the missile that hit the plane, Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Minister Hennadiy Zubko said.