KYIV, Dec 22 - President Petro Poroshenko has congratulated Ukrainians on Naftogaz Ukrayiny's victory over Gazprom in the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, presidential press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko has said.

KYIV, Dec. 26 - Mikheil Saakashvili, the leader of Ukraine's Movement of New Forces party, has refused to appear for questioning at the Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), despite being summoned for an appearance there on Tuesday, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Dec 22 - Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says he expects the stabilization of the hryvnia exchange rate in January 2018 against the background of the exhaustion of seasonal factors affecting the value of the national currency.

KYIV, Dec 27 – Ukrainians seek health, peace in the country and a prosperous family, according to a survey conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation.

KYIV, Dec 27 – President Petro Poroshenko and his fiercest political opponent, Mikheil Saakashvili, topped the 2017 Politician of the Year list in Ukraine, according to an opinion poll.

HORLIVKA, Dec. 27 - Ukraine and pro-Russian separatist rebels conducted the largest exchange of prisoners since conflict broke out in 2014, sending hundreds of captives home to their families on Wednesday ahead of New Year and Orthodox Christmas, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Dec. 27 - The UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have allocated $274 million for implementation of humanitarian projects in the uncontrolled territory of Donbas and near the contact line in 2017, Minister for the Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons Vadym Chernysh said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 27 - Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said it is still holding out hope that the visit of Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to Israel, cancelled in the wake of Kiev's support of a U.N. Security Council condemning settlements on the West Bank, will take place in 2017. of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has expressed hope that the visit of Prime Minister of Ukraine to Israel will take place in 2017.

KIEV, Dec. 27 – U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden may have personally asked President Petro Poroshenko for Ukraine to vote in favor of an anti-Israeli resolution by the U.N. Security Council, Tablet Magazine reported Tuesday, citing sources.

KIEV, Dec. 26 – President Petro Poroshenko has signed the law on state budget for 2017.

Poroshenko also signed laws on increasing the wages to employees of state coal enterprises, on amending certain legislative acts of Ukraine concerning the increase of minimum wages to UAH 3,200, and a law on amendments to the Budget Code, the Ukrainian president's press service reported.