KIEV, Sept. 25 – President Petro Poroshenko said he hopes that the fund for Donbas restoration will collect at least $1 billion.

"I have no doubts that we'll manage to accumulate at least $1 billion into a special fund for Donbas infrastructure restoration and not just due to funds from the taxpayers of Ukraine," he said at a press conference in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 25 - Ukraine and the rest of the world will not recognize local elections planned by pro-Russian separatists next month, President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday, adding that he hoped Russia would follow the same course, Reuters reported.

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk accused Russia on Thursday of attempting to freeze Ukraine in the coming winter by using natural gas as a weapon to subjugate the former Soviet Republic.

KIEV, Sept. 25 - President Petro Poroshenko said he would present a broad plan of social and economic reforms on Thursday which would allow Ukraine to apply for membership of the European Union in six years, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 24 - Sixty-two percent of Ukrainian citizens do not think that the law on the special self-government status for individual districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and on amnesty for members of illegal armed groups, if passed, will guarantee peace in eastern Ukraine, according to a poll conducted by the GfK Ukraine pollster.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – Ukraine's Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Prodan considers it unlikely that a compromise will be reached with Russia at the forthcoming tripartite consultations on gas in Berlin.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – The Ukrainian Defense Ministry will purchase Polish drones and Ukrainian helicopters for its "anti-terrorist" operation forces, Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov said.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – Uman (Cherkasy region) has summed up the results of the visits of Hasidic Jews to celebrate Jewish New Year.

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 – President Viktor Yanukovych has expressed the hope that the construction of a floating liquefied natural gas terminal (LNG terminal) will begin in Ukraine in the middle of 2014.

ASTANA, Sept. 25 - Intergovernmental negotiations between Russia and Ukraine on energy issues will be held in Moscow in early October, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky said at the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the level of the heads of governments.