KIEV, Aug. 30 – The interagency targeted center, established with the aim of overcoming corruption at customs, started work under the Finance Ministry on August 29, while its mobile customs groups will start work in early September, according to the ministry's website.

KIEV, Aug. 30 – The leading candidates for the post of president remain current President Petro Poroshenko and head of the Batkivschyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Social Monitoring Center and Ukrainian Institute of Social and Economic Transformation of the Institute of Economics and Forecasting under Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences.

KIEV, Aug. 31 – Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko and Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Du Wei have discussed the prospects of cooperation in the field of tourism and attraction of new investments and technologies.

KIEV, Aug. 31 - The debt of the Ukrainian public for housing and utilities services in July 2016 fell by 1.1% compared to June 2016 and amounted to UAH 9.7 billion, the State Statistics Service said.

KIEV, Sept. 1 - President Petro Poroshenko hailed the launch of the electronic declaration of government officials’ assets as another important step in creating a new, modern structure in the struggle against corruption in Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 1 - European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic has called for re-launching the trilateral format of negotiations on gas between the European Commission, Ukraine, and Russia.

KIEV, Sept. 1 - A new ceasefire has been holding in eastern Ukraine since midnight following days and weeks of intensification of shelling, Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak said Thursday.

MOSCOW, Aug. 31 - Ukraine, which announced on Thursday that it had reached agreement with creditors on the parameters of an external debt restructuring, was counting on Russia to agree to a writedown on the $3 billion in Ukrainian eurobonds it holds.

KIEV, Aug. 31 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has again proposed that Russia accept the conditions of restructuring of the Ukrainian state debt that were reached with the committee of creditors, as the country will not get any other proposals from the Ukrainian authorities.

KIEV, Aug. 31 - The Ukrainian government has decided to raise its social standards in agreement with the IMF three months ahead of schedule (on September 1 instead of December 1), as it has received confirmation of non-random increased revenues to the budget and the improving economic situation in the country, Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said.