KIEV, Sept. 2 – Ukraine's national budget deficit in July fell to UAH 200 million from UAH 7.7 billion in June, which was the result of both increased revenues and reduced expenses in absolute terms, according to a macroeconomic overview the National Bank of Ukraine has posted on its website.

KIEV, Sept. 3 – A new military doctrine approved by the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council identifies the Russian Federation as a military adversary and sets out the terms for liberation of the country's "temporarily occupied territories."

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 - Ukraine may need as much as $19 billion in additional funds from donors if its conflict with pro-Russian separatists continues during 2015, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 2 - Ukraine on Tuesday started massive imports of European natural gas via the Vojany-Uzhgorog Slovakian gas pipeline, the government reported in a statement.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk, jointly with his Slovakian counterpart Robert Fico, attended the ceremony to open commercial supplies of gas via the pipeline.

KIEV, Sept. 2 - EU officials proposed sanctions on Tuesday to starve Russian firms of cash as punishment for Moscow's role in Ukraine, where rebels said they were storming Donetsk airport, potentially their biggest prize since turning the war's tide last week, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 1 – President Petro Poroshenko has conveyed his thanks to the U.S. Congress for its initiative to grant Ukraine major non-NATO ally status.

KIEV, Sept. 2 – The European Union on Friday could prepare a package of new sanctions against Russia if Moscow does not stop its direct aggression against Ukraine, said Ambassador Kostiantyn Yeliseyev,Ukraine's representative at the EU.

KIEV, Sept. 3 – Following rules set by the International Monetary Fund's first Stand-By arrangement review, Ukraine will stop using advance payments by the National Bank of Ukraine to the national budget and will save only banks assets or deposits of which amount to 2% of total assets and deposits of the banking system via recapitalization using state funds.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - Ukraine has managed to replace 60% of its Russian natural gas imports with alternative supplies of gas from Europe, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - Ukraine said it will cut power supplies to Crimea, its Black Sea peninsula occupied and annexed by Russia in March, amid looming power shortages in the mainland.

The energy and coal industry ministry issued an order to UkrInterEnergo, state-owned power supply company, to introduce power supply restrictions to the peninsula on Wednesday.