KYIV, May 3 – Restoring the law that punishes for illicit enrichment is one of the conditions for continuation of Ukraine’s cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), advisor to President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky and ex-Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

KYIV, May 3 - The Russian-Ukrainian border is the only thing left in common between the peoples of the neighboring countries, Ukraine’s President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said in response to remarks from President Vladimir Putin.

KYIV, May 3 - The resumption of the talks on settlement in Donbas in the so-called Normandy format that includes Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany is a key priority for the team of Volodymyr Zelensky, who has been elected president of Ukraine, his adviser Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

KIEV, May 4 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a bill to amend Chapter 4 of the Ukrainian law "On particularities of making transactions with regard to debt of the government, debt guaranteed by the government or municipal debt", which extends the temporary moratorium for payments on the two-year eurobonds issued in December 2013 and purchased by Russia's National Wealth Fund.

KIEV, MAY 4 – Ukraine, Georgia and Kosovo may qualify for a visa-free regime with the EU in 2016, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Johannes Hahn said.

KIEV, May 4 - The deficit of Ukraine's consolidated balance of payments in March increased to $859 million, a deterioration due largely to the first payment of coupon in the amount of $473 million on new government domestic loan bonds issued by the government in November 2015, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, May 5 – There are no obstacles to visa liberalization by the European Union for Ukraine, the European side is completing formalization and related procedures, Ukraine's Ambassador-at-Large Dmytro Kuleba said.

KIEV, May 5 – The National Bank of Ukraine softened its foreign currency regulations on Thursday by removing a requirement that three-quarters of all money coming into the country as foreign investment be converted into the local hryvnia currency.

KIEV, May 5 – The national gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy on April 30 submitted a statement of claim to the Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal in the gas transit arbitration against the Russian gas giant Gazprom.

KIEV, May 5 – The wildfire on the grounds of the Chernobyl Puscha special enterprise in the Chernobyl exclusion zone has been extinguished, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service announced.