KYIV, Oct 31 – The launch of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which the permission of authorities of Denmark to build the facility on its territory contributed to, is strengthening Russia and weakening Europe, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

KYIV, Oct 31 – Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk has met with Director-General for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Christian Danielsson and discussed deepening of cooperation under the EU Eastern Partnership initiative.

KYIV, Oct. 31 - Ukrainian troops will begin a weapons pullback in a second location in war-torn eastern Ukraine next week if a cease-fire there persists, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Thursday, AP reported.

MINSK, Oct. 31 - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday said his country may provide personnel to help seal Ukraine-Russia border as part of a discussed UN peacekeeping force in occupied regions of Donbas.

KYIV, Oct. 31 - Ukrainian anticorruption investigators on Tuesday have detained the son of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, seen as the second most powerful man in the country.

KYIV, Oct. 31 - A Chechen man accused of plotting to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin was wounded and his wife killed when their car was ambushed near Ukraine's capital, Kiev, BBC reported.

KYIV, Oct 30 – President Petro Poroshenko will pay an official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from October 31 to November 1, and on November 1-2 he will pay a working visit to the United Arab Emirates.

KYIV, Oct 31 – Paul Manafort, the arrested campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump, is involved in two investigations being conducted by Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office (PGO), head of the PGO's department for special investigations Serhiy Horbatiuk has said.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – Ukraine will launch a new public broadcasting service on January 1, 2017, Oleh Nalyvaiko, head of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, said.

THE HAGUE, Oct. 31 - The Dutch prime minister said Monday he still is searching for a legally binding compromise that would allow him to sign off on a free trade pact between the European Union and Ukraine by addressing concerns that led to voters in the Netherlands rejecting the deal in a referendum, The Associated Press reported.