KYIV, Jan 31 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that Ukraine is ready to expand relations with the United States in the field of defense and security, and to consider the possibility of purchasing new weapons.

KYIV, Feb 3 - Tehran said Monday that it would stop sharing information with Kyiv about the downing of a Ukrainian jetliner last month, after a Ukrainian TV channel released leaked recordings from Iranian air traffic control, VOA reported.

KYIV, Feb 3 - The leader of the new independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church was enthroned in a ceremony in Kyiv on Sunday, formalizing a break with the Russian Orthodox Church that has enraged Moscow, AFP reported.

KYIV, Jan 31 - President Petro Poroshenko has signed the law on amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine regarding the purchase of imported products, labor and services for defense purposes.

KIEV, Feb. 1 - Ukrainian authorities could this week send the updated Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies in the framework of the Extended Fund Facility program to the International Monetary Fund, which will enable the fund within two or three weeks to consider the issue to Kiev of the third tranche in the amount of SDR1.18 billion ($1.63 billion), National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva said.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – It is too early to raise the question of lifting anti-Russian sanctions in the context of the current situation in Donbas, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – The International Monetary Fund is delaying the publication of the Technical Assistance Report on Ukraine planned for January 29, Bloomberg has reported, referring to an IMF notification.

KIEV, Feb. 2 – Parliament has preliminarily approved a revised bill No. 3524 on amendments to the Constitution in the field of justice.

BERLIN, Feb. 2 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to use his influence to rein in pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine, a day after she warned a year-old peace deal was not being fully implemented, AFP reported.

KIEV, Feb. 2 – Representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics threatened during the Saturday consultations in Minsk to resume full-scale fighting along the frontline if their demands are not met, Ukraine's second President Leonid Kuchma said.