KYIV, Oct 1 – Ukraine will seek to significantly expand trade with China, focusing on high-technology and agriculture sectors, in development that will further diversify the country’s exports and imports, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Thursday.

KYIV, Oct 1 – Former President Petro Poroshenko offered a reward of up to UAH 3 million for those who will provide reliable information about the paymaster and the perpetrators of attempts on the life and property of ex-governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeria Gontareva.

KYIV, Oct. 1 – Ukraine on Tuesday accepted a controversial peace plan that calls for holding local elections in occupied regions of Donbas without clearly demanding that Russian troops must leave the territory.

KYIV, Sept 28 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is ready to discuss with the Ukrainian authorities amendments to the bill on raising pensions (No.6614) within the framework of the pension reform goals defined by the fund and the World Bank, IMF Spokesperson William Murray said.

MELITOPOL, Sept. 29 - Russia has left troops behind after staging war games in Belarus despite promising not to, Ukraine's Commander in Chief Viktor Muzhenko told Reuters.

KHARKIV, Sept 28 - Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman believes the goal for 2018 is to achieve economic growth in the country in the amount of 5% of GDP.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – Some 51% of Ukrainians support their country joining the European Union, while integration into the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) is supported by only 17%, according to a poll conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and by the Razumkov Centre in July.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29 – Despite the aggression in eastern Ukraine, the country is continuing its reforms, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

"Aggression must not stop reforms. We've conducted many important reforms," Poroshenko said at the 11th annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in New York.

KIEV, Sept. 30 – Ukraine has fallen three places in the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) published by the World Economic Forum, to 79th.

Russia climbed 11 places, rising from 53rd to 45th.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1 – Speaking at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko condemned Russia's veto imposed on an international tribunal to bring to account those who shot down Malaysian airlines flight MH17 over militants-held territory in Ukraine, saying that "everyone in this hall understands Russia's real motive."