KIEV, Nov. 1 - Residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as residents of Crimea continue to apply for assistance to Ukraine's Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters and regional headquarters and more than one million have already been registered with the headquarters, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said in a release on Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – The European Union's Delegation in Ukraine has stressed the importance of organizing independent verification of electronic declarations of income and property submitted by Ukrainian officials by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention as well as ensuring effective and uninterrupted functioning of the e-declaration system.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - More than half of Ukrainians - 51% - favor the country's accession to the European Union and 19% to the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, as is evident from a public opinion poll of 2,400 respondents that the Rating sociological survey service conducted under a contract with the International Republican Institute in all regions of Ukraine except for Donbas, from September 28 to October 7.

KIEV, Oct. 30 - A Ukraine soldier died Friday during fighting with insurgents near the shelled-out remains of the airport in Donetsk, a stronghold of the pro-Russian separatists, the army announced, AFP reported.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - President Petro Poroshenko warned Sunday that the arrest of a millionaire associate of one of the country's most powerful oligarchs was only "the start" of a fight against the corruption plaguing the ex-Soviet country, AFP reported.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - The Ukrainian Voters Committee forecasts that a second round of local elections will be held in about 30 cities.

KIEV, Oct. 30 – Ukraine's judiciary can work without political interference and corruption, but corrupt judges are still on the job as lustration in the country is incomplete, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt said.

KIEV, Oct. 31 - Moody's Investors Service has said that the general Ukrainian government debt-to-GDP ratio might reach around 70% of GDP at the end of 2014 compared to 41% at the end of 2013, while early October Moody's projected a ratio of up to 66% of GDP.

MOSCOW, Oct. 31 – Russia could resume natural gas deliveries to Ukraine as soon as next week if Kiev pays $2.2 billion in debt and pre-payments, gas exporter Gazprom said on Friday, under a deal that also safeguards winter deliveries to Europe, Reuters reported.

Moscow, Kiev and the European Union reached an agreement on Thursday over the gas supplies despite tensions over a pro-Russian separatist rebellion in east Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 - Stepped-up flights by Russian fighters, long-range bombers and tanker aircraft are aggravating security concerns in Europe and the United States is watching them very closely, the Pentagon said on Friday, Reuters reported.