KYIV, Mar 2 – More than UAH 6 billion has been transferred into the National Bank of Ukraine’s special account for supporting the Ukrainian army.

The National Bank of Ukraine announced this in a statement, the Ukrainian News Agency reports.

KYIV, Mar 2 – The Ministry of Interior Affairs says that 40,000 people are left without electricity and food over the Russia’s aggression in the east of Ukraine.

KYIV, March 2 - Ukraine will seek to get $2.9 billion in financing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2021, for which the parliament is supposed to pass legislative amendments on reforming the judicial system, presidential economic advisor Oleh Ustenko said.

KYIV, March 2 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy received a coronavirus vaccine shot Tuesday in a bid to dispel widespread public skepticism about vaccination in Ukraine, AP reported.

KYIV, March 2 – Ukraine should be integrated in the European Union and NATO, but it should have deeply developed relations with India and China, regions that may help Ukrainian national interests, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Dmytro Kuleba said.

KYIV, March 2 - Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk said Monday he had not submitted his resignation but added that consultations with the president and parliament were ongoing about potential personnel changes in the government.

KIEV, March 2 – U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch has welcomed a number of reforms which are being carried out by the Ukrainian government.

KIEV, March 2 - Ukraine has a “comfortable” level of natural gas in its underground gas storage facilities after five months of the heating season, Andriy Kobolev, the head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said Thursday.

KIEV, March 2 - Eight Ukrainian coal miners were killed and 14 miners were injured on Thursday after an explosion ripped through a coal mine in Lviv region on the border with the European Union, the emergency situations ministry reported.

KIEV, March 2 – Economic Development and Trade Minister Stepan Kubiv has discussed the urgency of ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and liberalization of visa regime with the European Union at a meeting in Brussels with EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn.