KYIV, Jan. 29 - The United States, Canada, Japan, Britain, as well as EU countries, provided aid to the National Police of Ukraine for the amount of about UAH 200 million in 2017, Head of the National Police Serhiy Kniazev has said.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31 - The UN Security Council expressed its "grave concern" on Tuesday over the "dangerous deterioration" in eastern Ukraine and called for a halt to the violence.

KIEV, Jan. 31 - There is no alternative to coal from the uncontrolled Donbas territories as of yet, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

"This is our land, these are our resources, and all those enterprises are registered on Ukrainian soil, which is ours and controllable, and I can see no alternative to procuring this coal for now.

KIEV, Jan. 28 – Ukrainian citizens overwhelmingly (94.4%) believe that the corruption problem in general is the most pressing in their country, according to a poll conducted by the Kiev International Institute of sociology (KIIS) in coordination with Lake Research Partners and Karakoyun Strategies.

KIEV, Jan. 28 – Over half of Ukrainian citizens positively assess the country's joining the European Union, according to a poll conducted in December by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).

KIEV, Jan. 28 – Rinat Akhmetov's DTEK energy holding is stirring up coalminer protests in western Ukraine, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyhsyn told reporters in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 28 – The top-priority steps to improve business climate in Ukraine are the relaxation of the requirement of obligatory sale of currency and the revoking of the ban on buying foreign currency to withdraw dividends abroad, the National Bank of Ukraine said on its website.

KIEV, Jan. 28 - Ukraine's central bank more than halved its 2016 growth forecast Thursday as the cash-strapped country battles crises ranging from falling commodity prices to a new trade embargo by Russia, AFP reported.

KIEV, Jan. 30 - Ukraine is not expecting the rapid signing of a new cooperation program with the International Monetary Fund after its mission's visit ends next month, Economic Development and Trade Minister Ihor Prasolov said.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 31 – Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara claims both Kiev and Brussels expect to sign an association agreement in 2013.

"At most of my meetings with European commissioners and at the European parliament, I felt great interest in signing the agreement this year," Kozhara said in an interview with Ukrainian journalists following a visit to Brussels.