KIEV, Oct. 30 – A draft coalition agreement proposed by the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko envisages introducing the mandatory countersigning of Cabinet of Ministers decisions by ministers who are responsible for the implementation of respective decisions.

KIEV, Oct. 30 – The United States will train Ukrainian servicemen and supply military high technology to Ukraine, which should help soldiers in Donbas protect themselves, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online newspaper.

KIEV, Nov. 3 – The humanitarian aid from Russia to Donbas residents was delivered in violation of Ukrainian law, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry charged.

"Ukraine several times informed Russia that humanitarian aid is to be delivered only in line with Ukrainian law and generally accepted international practice," reads a statement of the Foreign Ministry.

KIEV, Nov. 3 – President Petro Poroshenko has congratulated Ukrainians on the occasion of the launch of the provisional application of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement.

KIEV, Nov. 3 - Ukraine, facing a shortage of energy in the winter, seeks to resume supplies of coal from territories that are controlled by pro-Russian separatists, Yuriy Ziukov, deputy energy and coal industry minister, said Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 3 - Ukraine secured an agreement from the International Monetary Fund allowing the country to use its foreign exchange reserves to pay Russian natural gas debts, National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeria Hontareva said Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 3 - Ukraine's central bank chief said on Monday the bank had sold $1.3 billion defending the hryvnia in the past month and a half, and it will increase interventions to daily auctions to support the faltering currency, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 - Russia's border with eastern Ukraine has softened to the point of becoming completely porous, while an internal Ukrainian dividing line hardens, NATO's top general said on Monday, cautioning about the risk of another "frozen conflict," Reuters reported.

KIEV, Nov. 3 - President Petro Poroshenko called an emergency meeting of his security chiefs for Tuesday to discuss new ways of dealing with the separatist challenge in the east after rebel elections that were denounced by Kiev and the West, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 31 - The Ukrainian government and experts from the International Monetary Fund will continue consultations aimed at developing an ambitious package of measures to cope with all the challenges Ukraine faces, according to a statement by IMF mission head in Ukraine Nikolay Gueorguiev.