KIEV, Nov. 27 – Citizens of Ukraine wants the country to be united and are against its federalization, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"One hundred percent of Ukrainians now are for a unified state, a unified country. A constitutional majority of Ukrainians see it as a unitary country. No federalization! Poroshenko said in the Verkhovna Rada on Thursday while delivering an extraordinary address on Ukraine's external and domestic situation.

KIEV, Nov. 27 - Ukraine has no choice but to increase military spending to strengthen the country's defense capabilities, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – The Cabinet of Ministers on Thursday re-registered a bill on the voluntary uniting of territorial communities and on the special period in the fuel and energy complex first submitted to the parliament of the previous convocation on June 13 and June 18, 2014 respectively.

MOSCOW, Nov. 29 - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov urged the European Union to lift sanctions against Moscow over the Ukrainian conflict and promised to waive its counter-measures, Reuters reported Saturday citing Interfax news agency.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 29 - The European Union has imposed sanctions on the organizers of rebel elections in eastern Ukraine this month, the bloc said on Saturday, hitting the separatists and their organizations with asset freezes and travel bans.

KIEV, Nov. 30 - Ukraine said on Sunday that a convoy of 106 vehicles had entered its eastern territory from Russia without Kiev's permission and accused Moscow of once again using humanitarian aid shipments to send weapons and ammunition to separatist rebels.

KIEV, Nov. 29 – Liliya Frolova, a state prosecutor in the Russian gas supply contract case against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, has said that the defendant's appeal will undergo preliminarily consideration in a court of appeals in Kiev on December 1 and that the consideration of the appeal in essence will start on December 13.

KIEV, Nov. 30 – Facing increasing unrest from Chernobyl cleanup workers, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said he would fund an increase to their pensions by raiding other programs, including social assistance.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 30 – Ukraine’s European integration process may be derailed if the authorities continue to keep opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in jail, according to the European Policy Center, a Brussels-based think tank.

KIEV, Nov. 30 - Ukraine will only “gradually” return 12.1 billion cubic meters of natural gas to RosUkrEnergo to avoid serious problems on domestic market and with European gas transit, the energy and fuel ministry said Tuesday.