KYIV, Feb 26 – Parliament is working on a healthcare strategy for Ukraine that will be in effect through until 2030, Head of the parliamentary committee on national health, medical care and medical insurance, MP Mykhailo Radutsky said.

MOSCOW, Feb 27 - A former senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Ukraine will never be able to regain control over the separatist-controlled east, AP reported Wednesday.

KYIV, Feb 26 – Pensioners living on minimum pension will receive compensation for unpaid indexing for 2015-2016 in the amount of UAH 2,410 in March and April, President Petro Poroshenko has said.

KYIV, Feb 26 - Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko has called for the impeachment of President Petro Poroshenko, accusing him of treason after a media outlet aired a program alleging that people close to the incumbent enriched themselves by smuggling spare parts for military equipment from Russia.

KYIV, Feb 27 – Deputy Prime Minister, Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Minister Hennadiy Zubko after a meeting with the head of the European Parliament's delegation in the Parliamentary Association Committee (PAC) for Ukraine and the European Union (EU) Dariusz Rosati in Brussels noted the importance of the EU support of Ukraine in infrastructure projects in the Azov and Black Sea region, the press service of the deputy prime minister has reported.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 - The United States has reaffirmed that it will maintain sanctions on Russia until it returns control of Crimea to Ukraine, nearly five years after Moscow annexed the peninsula, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Feb 26 - The Opposition Bloc faction in parliament will not vote for Yakiv Smolii's appointment as governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), faction leader Yuriy Boiko said.

KYIV, Feb. 27 – Three Poles from apparently a pro-Russian group were detained by Polish security agency on Tuesday in Poland after allegedly perpetrating an arson attack on a Hungarian cultural center in Ukraine, PAP reported.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – A number of Ukrainian political experts have said early parliamentary elections in Ukraine are increasingly likely.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – Representative of Ukraine to the security subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group [on implementation of the Minsk agreements] Yevhen Marchuk said that recognition of the so-called documents issued by the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics is an attempt by Moscow to provoke Ukraine to withdraw from the Minsk agreements. He said Ukraine should expect asymmetrical unfriendly acts from the Russian Federation in the near future.