KIEV , Nov. 30 – AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Ukraine has organized the opening of the first no-cost confidential HIV checkpoint in Eastern Europe in Kiev , Deputy Bureau Chief, Director of Programs at AHF Europe Anna Zakowicz said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

KIEV , Nov. 30 – Ukraine 's Cabinet of Ministers has decided to accrue heating bills for residents of houses without meters, taking into account average consumption by houses with meters.

KIEV, Nov. 30 - Ukraine was due to start two days of missile tests on Thursday - a move that has angered Russia, prompting it to put its air defense forces on high alert on the annexed Crimea peninsula, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Nov. 27 - Ukraine does not have enough coal reserves to pass the winter season, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

"According to the information I have it is clear: there are not enough coal reserves. There are insufficient coal reserves. I warned about this three months ago," he said at a meeting of the anti-crisis energy headquarters in Kiev.

KIEV, Nov. 30 – President Petro Poroshenko and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung have discussed in Paris the intensification of trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.

KIEV, Nov. 30 – President Petro Poroshenko and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussed during a meeting in Paris on Sunday the prospects for deepening the special partnership between the two states, the official website of the Ukrainian president reported.

SIMFEROPOL, Nov. 30 – Prices on certain goods in Crimea have shot up by 40% against the backdrop of the current blackout, regional leader Sergei Aksyonov has said.

PARIS, Nov. 30 - U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Syria crisis and the situation in Ukraine during a meeting Monday on the sidelines of the climate summit in Paris, a White House official said, Reuters reported.

PARIS, Nov. 30 - Russia risks causing an "environmental disaster" in eastern Ukraine with its support for rebel forces, President Petro Poroshenko told a UN climate conference in Paris on Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 27 - The European Union is ready to help Ukraine, but the Ukrainian authorities should create the conditions for economic development in the country which will automatically bring it closer to the EU, EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said.