KIEV, Sept. 26 – President Petro Poroshenko has congratulated experts of the Kiev-based government-run Luch Design Bureau, part of the Ukroboronprom state concern, on its successful test of a new guided missile for multiple launch rocket systems.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - Ukrainians' hopes of securing visa-free travel to the European Union received a boost on Monday when a key committee of the European Parliament backed their cause, but further hurdles remain, Reuters reported.

SLOVIANSK, Sept. 23 – The evidence supports the theory of a contract killing in the case of the murder of the Caparol Ukraine director, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and Foreign Minister of Sweden Margot Wallstrom at a meeting in New York on September 22 discussed the development of bilateral relations, as well as the importance of maintaining the sanctions against Russia and facilitating of the work of the Special OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 26 – The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) will continue to support refugees from Donbas conflict zone in Ukraine, WFP Representative in Ukraine Dorte Ellehammer promised, the Agrarian Policy Ministry reported.

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.