KIEV, Feb. 3 – The Ukrainian Cabinet of ministers will continue working, and if some parliamentarians disagree with this, they are free to initiate a vote of no confidence in the government, says Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – Deputy Economic Development and Trade Ministers Yulia Klymenko, Maksym Nefyodov and Natalia Mykolska, who is also Ukraine's Trade Representative, have said that they plan to resign following Minister Aivaras Abromavicius.

KIEV, Feb. 4 - Ukraine faced the prospect Thursday of a fresh political crisis sparked by its reformist economy minister's resignation in protest at alleged influence-peddling and state graft, AFP reported.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – Starting March 1, Russian citizens will need foreign passports to enter Ukraine, stay in Ukraine and travel around the country, according to a resolution adopted by the Ukrainian cabinet.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – The U.S. government should provide Ukraine $3 billion in nonlethal and defensive lethal military assistance over the next three years so that Russia finally choose a political solution to the ongoing military conflict with Ukraine, reads a joint report from the Atlantic Council, Brookings Institution, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

KIEV, Feb. 5 – Ukraine needs help from western countries to improve its military capacity, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

NEW YORK (UN), Feb. 5 – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed a proposal of OSCE Chairperson Ivica Dacic to introduce a temporary ceasefire near Debaltseve in Donetsk region of Ukraine to evacuate civilians from the dangerous battle areas.

KIEV, Feb. 5 – One worker was killed and several others were injured when the Avdiyivka coke plant, which belongs to Ukraine's largest steelmaker Metinvest, came under heavy artillery fire on Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 5 - The leaders of Germany and France announced a new peace plan for Ukraine on Thursday, flying to Kiev with a proposal they would then take on to Moscow, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 5 - Ukraine's hryvnia currency plunged about 30 percent against the dollar on Thursday, traders said, after the central bank abandoned the foreign currency auctions that had effectively pegged the exchange rate, Reuters reported.