KYIV, Oct 26 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) includes cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its forecasts and expects that a new tranche under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) in the first quarter of 2018.

KIEV, Oct. 25 - About half of Ukrainians are ready to support Ukraine's entry into the European Union at a referendum, the Kiev International Institute of Sociology said after having conducted a related poll.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has initiated an increase of the subsistence wage in Ukraine to UAH 3,200 and plans to include the requirement to the draft 2017 national budget.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – The arrival of the mission of the International Monetary Fund to Kiev has been postponed, a source in the government told Interfax-Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Oct. 26 - A group of Ukrainian hackers has released thousands of emails from an account used by a senior Kremlin official that appear to show close financial and political ties between Moscow and separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine, The Associated Press reported.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has announced five areas of cooperation with Germany, summing up the Ukrainian-German Economic Forum held in Berlin.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, needs to pass a separate law on holding local elections in Mariupol and Krasnoarmiysk, Central Election Commission Chairman Mykhailo Okhendovsky said.

BERLIN, Oct. 25 - Ukraine will not pay off its debt to Russia if Moscow does not agree to join in a restructuring deal involving other creditors, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk told German business daily Handelsblatt, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 26 - International monitors Monday called Ukraine's weekend local elections "well organized" and "democratic" but urged its pro-Western leadership to do more against political meddling by oligarchs in the war-scarred state, AFP reported.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has approved a plan of priority measures to upgrade and enhance the state border along the coastline of Ukraine's territorial waters in Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.