KIEV, May 5 – The European Union has promised to come up with a plan and timeframe for introducing a visa-free regime for Ukrainians, according to President Petro Poroshenko.

BRUSSELS, May 5 - The European Union will implement a free-trade pact with Ukraine from next year despite Russian pressure for another delay, according to a draft statement prepared for a summit with six of the bloc's eastern neighbors this month in Riga, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 5 – A peaceful settlement to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine and restoration of relations between Kiev and Moscow would make a return to balanced, transparent commercial relations between Ukraine, Russia and the EU in the gas sector possible, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Energy Union Maros Sefcovic said during the European Court of Auditors Energy Security Conference in Brussels.

KIEV, April 30 - The government will table in parliament a bill on a nationwide opinion poll, which should be held May 25, on the issues of national unity and territorial integrity of the state and decentralization of power, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

BRUSSELS, April 30 - Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN Yuriy Serheyev has said that there is a high probability of Russia's realizing the "Abkhazian scenario" in east Ukraine, one of the purposes of which is to disrupt the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for May 25.

KIEV, May 5 – The International Monetary Fund expects real GDP in Ukraine to contract by about 5% percent in 2014 amid weak investor and consumer confidence, however Ukraine's economic prospects will improve in the medium-term.

BRUSSELS, May 5 – The European Union, Ukraine and Russia will continue discussing their disputes in two weeks.

OTTAWA, May 5 - NATO's top military commander in Europe said on Monday he no longer thought regular Russian troops would enter eastern Ukraine, predicting Moscow could achieve its goals through the unconventional forces stirring up trouble there, Reuters reported.

ODESSA, May 5 - Ukraine's Interior Minister said on Monday he had drafted a new special forces unit into the southern port city of Odessa after the "outrageous" failure of police to tackle pro-Russian separatists in a weekend of violence that killed dozens, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 4 – Leader of the Batkivschyna Party and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said she intends to appeal to the international courts against the actions of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, including the possible changing of the preventive measures taken against her to arrest.