KYIV, Dec 27 – An overwhelming majority of Ukrainians said they trust President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Parliamentary Speaker Dmytro Razumkov, according to recent opinion poll by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday postponed a trip to Ukraine so he could focus on the situation in Iraq after demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassy, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Dec. 29 - Ukraine expects at least one tranche of funding, its third, from the International Monetary Fund in January as Kiev has fulfilled all preconditions, central bank governor Valeriya Gontareva said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Dec. 29 - The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France will hold a conference call Wednesday to assess implementation of a peace accord in pro-Russian eastern Ukraine, the government in Kiev said Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 28 – President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law designed to reign in Russian propaganda broadcasts in Ukraine -- No. 856-VIII "On the broadcasting system in Ukraine,“ the president's press service reported on Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 28 – The successful continuation of the IMF-supported Extended Fund Facility that Ukraine hopes to see would allow the country to discuss the merger of the tranches early 2016, Deputy Finance Minister Artem Shevalev said in an interview with Apostrof online publication at apostrophe.com.ua on Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 30 – The Ukrainian government has set aside funds to finance litigation over the non-payment on $3 billion eurobonds bought by Russia in the 2016 national budget, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said at a year-end press conference in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec 29 – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund could make the decision on the provision of the next tranche under the IMF-supported Extended Fund Facility in late January 2016, of the National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva has said.

MOSCOW, Dec. 30 - The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have agreed to extend the Minsk peace accord on Ukraine into 2016, the Kremlin said in a statement on Wednesday, following a phone call between the four leaders, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Dec. 29 – President Petro Poroshenko says he is against halting shipments of gas and electricity, which are supplied free of charge to the occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and that he is against an exchange of gas for coal from Donbas.