KYIV, March 1 – President Petro Poroshenko promised security, ‘millions of jobs’ and ‘billions in investments’ at a campaign meeting with voters in Kirovohrad region on Friday.

KYIV, March 3 - Authorities in the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula have released the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the region after briefly detaining him, a Russian lawyer said, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Feb 28 – The All-Ukrainian population census may take place in Ukraine in 2020, for this, a preparatory stage will be held in the form of a test census in one of the districts of Kyiv and one districts of Kyiv region at the end of the current year, head of the State Statistics Service Ihor Werner reported on Thursday.

KYIV, March 1 – Finance Minister Oksana Markarova has discussed the course of reforms and the progress in the implementation of the fourth macrofinancial assistance (MFA) program of the European Union (EU) with European Commission Vice-President for the Euro and Social Dialogue Valdis Dombrovskis.

MINSK, March 2 – The Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine signed two documents on terms of the normalization of the situation at the contact line in Donbas at its meeting on Wednesday, OSCE Special Envoy Martin Sajdik told reporters.

KIEV, March 2 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday approved a poverty reduction strategy, which foresees that poverty rate in Ukraine will be reduced by nearly half, to 15% by 2020.

PARIS, March 3 - Local elections should be held in eastern Ukraine by the end of July, the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France agreed, but questions remain over Kiev and Moscow's ability to seal the deal, AFP reported.

KIEV, March 2 – The number of internally displaced persons has exceeded 1 million in Ukraine, says a new UN report released on Monday.

KIEV, March 3 - Parliament has backed the government adjustments of the 2015 state budget; budget revenues are set to grow by UAH 22.5 billion and expenditures will be up UAH 35.7 billion.

WASHINGTON, March 3 - U.S. President Barack Obama and European leaders on Tuesday warned Russia that they were ready to step up sanctions if there were further violations of a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine, officials said, Reuters reported.