KIEV, Nov 1 - President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday compared being placed on a Russian sanctions list to receiving an award, adding that Moscow should withdraw its troops and weapons from Ukrainian territory instead of saber-rattling, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Nov 1 – Ukraine is interested in attracting investments from Saudi Arabia, the press service of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

KYIV, Nov. 1 - Ukraine’s prime minister said Tuesday his country would gladly turn over information it has on former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort if special counsel Robert Mueller asks, Newsweek reported.

KIEV, Oct. 31 - The draft agenda of the November 21-24 plenary sessions of the European Parliament has not included voting on the abolition of visa requirements for Ukrainian citizens.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - Ukrainian authorities will investigate politicians and officials who declare cash assets of more than $100,000 and will impose prison sentences of up to 15 years on any found guilty of wrongdoing, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was released from the U.S. Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Terminal Island in California on November 1 after serving 13 years for financial fraud.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – A senior government official on Thursday denied reports that Ukraine has been preparing to restrict exports of grain later this month.

Deputy Prime Minister and Social Policy Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said the government had never considered the measure, which he said would be anti-market.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Ukraine’s parliamentary elections, criticized by international observers for lack of transparency, became even messier Thursday when pro-government candidates used courts to try to overturn victories by their opposition rivals.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Ukraine has achieved a 10-year transition period and compensation from the European Union in return for giving up the use of geographic names for products, the Ukrainian government's commissioner for European integration, Valeriy Piatnytsky, said in an interview with the Mirror Weekly Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Almost two thousand protesters broke a fence around Parliament on Tuesday, threatening to storm the building to force lawmakers to reject the government’s bill cutting social spending.

The protesters retreated shortly after a violent clash with riot police near the entrance to Parliament, while pro-government lawmakers quickly reversed course and promised the spending will not be cut.