KIEV, Sept. 6 - More than 40 import contracts on shipments of defensive equipment to the Ukrainian armed forces are currently in place, their total value amounting to $1.5 billion, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - An electronic petition has been registered on the official website of Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko that demands the appointment of the head of Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, as prime minister.

KIEV, Sept. 3 – Ukraine has launched the second round of evaluation of the fulfillment of criteria of the second stage of the EU visa liberalization plan, Interior Ministry spokesperson Mariana Betsa said.

KIEV, Sept. 4 – Ukraine doesn't recognize Russia's right to apply universal jurisdiction in Ukraine as a result of the ongoing crisis in Donbas, deputy chief of presidential staff Kostiantyn Yeliseyev said.

KIEV, Sept. 4 - President Petro Poroshenko and Polish special presidential envoy and State Secretary Krzysztof Szczerski discussed a roadmap of contacts between the two leaders.

"The Ukrainian head of state invited Polish President Andrzej Duda to visit Ukraine," the Ukrainian presidential press service reported following Poroshenko's meeting with Szczerski in Kiev on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 4 – Russia's threats to impose an embargo on Ukrainian goods if no amendments are made to an annex to the Ukrainian-EU free trade agreement are based on far-fetched apprehensions and have no economic grounds, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

KIEV, Sept. 6 - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday lauded Ukraine's economic progress and urged its creditors to join in a deal to restructure $18 billion of its sovereign and quasi-sovereign debt, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 4 – Ukraine has officially confirmed that it will take part in the NATO-led Ocean Shield international anti-piracy operation, said Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Voloshyn.

KIEV, Sept. 4 – The National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting will monitor all providers of program services regarding the disconnection of the TVi Channel, Volodymyr Manzhosov, the head of the council, announced after a council meeting in Kiev on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 4 – European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he hopes that a number of association agreements with the Eastern Partnership member states will be concluded next year.