KIEV, Oct. 26 – OPORA NGO had registered 1,118 violations of election laws in Ukraine by 04:00 Kiev time on Monday, October 26, and the violation of pre-election campaigning rules is the most frequent one, OPORA coordinator Olha Aivazovska said.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – Almost 13.8 million Ukrainian citizens came to the local elections on October 25, which is 46.62% of the total number of voters, the Central Elections Commission reported.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – European companies currently export half of the gas from the European Union to Ukraine now that the new law on the gas market has taken effect in the country, Naftogaz Ukrainy Chairman Andriy Kobolev said at the Ukrainian-German business forum in Berlin on October 23.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – The majority of Ukrainians (53.4%) would have vote to join NATO if such a referendum were had taken place on Sunday. A total of 33.6% would have voted against it, 5.6% - wouldn't have come to the referendum at all, and 7.4% either hadn't decided yet or refused to answer, according to a poll by the Gorshenin Institute.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 24 - The European Union and Ukraine will discuss a bridging loan to Kiev next week so that the country can pay in advance for Russian gas deliveries for the coming months, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday, Reuters reported.

MONS, Oct. 24 - Russia still has troops in eastern Ukraine and retains a very capable force on the border despite a partial withdrawal, NATO's military commander said on Friday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 26 - President Petro Poroshenko hailed a sweeping victory for pro-Europe parties in an election on Sunday, saying the vote showed people backed his plan to end a separatist conflict, his pro-Western course and democratic reforms.

MOSCOW, Oct. 24 - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told the EU bloc’s leaders on Thursday that the EU’s executive body could give Ukraine a maximum $1 billion (EUR 790 million) in the near term out of its budget to help Kiev pay its gas bills, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has expressed his fear that the Russian financial crisis will have a negative impact on Ukraine and demanded that relevant ministries take appropriate actions.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – Ukraine and the EU have agreed on all of the key parameters of the agreement on a free trade area, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade Andriy Kliuyev has written on his blog on the Web site of the Korrespondent publication.