KYIV, Nov. 5 - Ukraine is moving quickly toward agreeing a new three-year loan program with the International Monetary Fund, Finance Minister Oksana Markarova told reporters on Tuesday, denying suggestions that talks for a new deal had stalled, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Nov. 4 – Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko has expressed hope that an agreement on restructuring Kiev's bonds worth $550 million will be reached.

KIEV, Nov. 5 – Ukraine's parliament plans to exempt goods imported by Japan to realize a project to modernize the Bortnychi sewage treatment plant in Kiev from taxation.

KIEV, Nov. 5 – Ukraine's Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry says it will insist on retaining the beneficial VAT taxation regime for farmers until 2018 when it meets shortly with representatives of the International Monetary Fund.

KIEV, Nov. 5 - Ukraine's parliament Thursday scuppered the ex-Soviet country's chances of visa-free travel to most EU nations by blocking legislation that would have banned discrimination against gays in the workplace, AFP reported.

KIEV, Nov. 3 – Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has met with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rasit Meredow as part of his working visit to Turkmenistan on Monday, the Foreign Ministry reported.

KIEV, Nov. 5 – President Petro Poroshenko issued a decree on November 4 enacting a September 12 decision of the National Security and Defense Council on a package of measures to step up the state's defense capability and proposals to the clauses of the 2015 draft state budget dealing with national security and defense.

The corresponding decree was posted on the president's website on Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 5 – The Ukrainian government plans to send UAH 440 million of funds provided by the European Union to compensate 50% of the cost of the volume of replaced natural gas after the current heating season to enterprises if regional gas supply companies confirm the fact of gas replacement, Head of the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine Serhiy Savchuk said in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 5 – The Ukrainian government will continue supplying gas and electricity to the rebel-controlled areas of Donbas, despite the absence of any payments, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 5 - Russia is not complying with the Minsk agreements on Donbas but is in fact sabotaging them, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis said.