KIEV, Feb. 1 – Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has sent a note to Russia's Foreign Ministry protesting against the announced plans of the Crimean and Simferopol eparchy of Moscow Patriarchy to seize some buildings of Ancient City Chersonesos Taurica and its Chora, belonging to Ukraine. The city is on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

KIEV, Jan. 29 - Real wages in Ukraine in December 2015 fell by 9.9% year-on-year, after growing by 15.2% from November 2015, the State Statistics Service reported.

RIVNE, Feb. 1 – President Petro Poroshenko on Friday took park in the opening of the center of administrative services in Rivne.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – President Petro Poroshenko has signed a bill on holding early elections of the mayor of Kryvy Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, on March 27, 2016, which was passed by the parliament on December 23, 2015, the president's press service reported on Saturday.

KIEV, Feb. 1 - Ukraine plans to submit a new memorandum of understanding to the International Monetary Fund this week, opening the way for the release of another loan tranche, central bank governor Valeria Gontareva said on Monday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 1 - Ukraine asked the European Union and the European Energy Community to shut down Russia’s planed Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said Monday.

BERLIN, Feb. 1 - Ukraine's president Monday accused Russia of sending troops and weapons into the ex-Soviet state's conflict-torn east, and warned that a fragile peace deal was not being fully implemented, AFP reported.

KIEV, Feb. 2 - Ukraine may cut off power supplies to Donetsk, a stronghold of the pro-Russian separatists, in reaction to a recent military offensive by the rebels, a regional governor said Monday.

Oleksandr Kikhtenko, the governor of the Donetsk region, an area most of which is controlled by the government, said the raging fighting does not allow repairing power lines and generating facilities.

MOSCOW, Feb. 2 - Separatists battling government troops in east Ukraine plan a general mobilization and aim to boost their fighting force to 100,000 men, one of their main leaders said on Monday, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 - The United States is reconsidering whether to provide weapons to Ukraine in its fight against Russian-backed separatists, senior administration officials said on Monday, adding that no decision had been made.