KIEV, Sept. 27 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman has stressed the importance of investing in science and a systematic approach to reforming the academic sphere in the country.

KIEV, Sept. 27 - Decisive measures taken by the government to combat smuggling and innovation have already resulted in an increase in revenues from customs duties, with August exceeding the target by UAH 2.34 billion, Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman said.

KIEV, Sept. 25 – Using the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, members of illegal armed groups are stealing Ukrainian enterprises, leader of the Ukrainian section of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) Major-General Borys Kremenetsky said at a meeting with representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM).

BRUSSELS, Sept. 25 - Russia agreed to resume gas supplies to Ukraine over the winter under a deal clinched late Friday with the European Union, capping months of difficult talks overshadowed by the Ukrainian conflict, AFP reported.

ODESSA, Sept. 24 – President Petro Poroshenko has expressed his full support for Odessa Regional State Administration head Mikheil Saakashvili and his team in their fight against oligarchs and bureaucracy to create a better investment climate in the region.

KIEV, Sept. 25 – Oleh Blokhin, chief coach of Ukraine's national football team has been appointed the head coach of FC Dynamo Kiev.

The contract runs for four years.

KIEV, Sept. 27 – The police have identified a man suspected of shooting dead three employees of private security companies in the Karavan shopping mall in Kiev, Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko told journalists on Thursday.

MOSCOW, Sept. 27 - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will meet with his counterparts from other CIS member states and attend the 3rd International Investment Business Forum in Yalta on September 28.

KIEV, Sept. 27 - Ukraine has appealed a recent court ruling obliging it to pay Russia a $390 million natural gas debt owed since the 1990s by a private gas trader owned by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the Justice Ministry reported Thursday.

NEW YORK, Sept. 27 – The United States and the European Union jointly urged Ukraine to stop selective prosecutions and said the two are working closely to monitor the state of democracy ahead of parliamentary elections in the country.