MOSCOW, Feb. 25 - The delivery of U.S. weapons to Ukraine may start a new world war, 42% of respondents told the Russian Public Opinion Study Center (VTsIOM).

KIEV, Feb. 25 – The Global Fund has provided $133.888 million of financial aid to fight HIV and tuberculosis as requested by Ukraine, covering the period from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2017.

MOSCOW, Feb. 26 – The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that its expanded bailout of embattled Ukraine will include 'heavily front-loaded' cash payments once the board approves the program.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 26 – The European Union will not rule out increasing sanctions on Russia if it continues to destabilize eastern Ukraine, European Council President Donald Tusk said during a speech to the European Parliament on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 26 - Russia, Ukraine and the European Union will hold talks in Brussels on Monday to discuss problems with gas supplies to Ukraine, the EU said on Thursday, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, Feb. 26 – The European Union believes there are still reasons to impose fresh sanctions on Russia but hopes the Minsk deal concluded on February 12 will be fulfilled, a European diplomat told Interfax on Thursday.

MOSCOW, Feb. 26 - Gazprom said on Thursday it would exempt gas supplies to Ukraine’s rebel-held regions from its main contract with Naftogaz Ukrayiny, days before Kiev uses up gas volumes it has already paid for, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 25 - The Central Election Commission has begun accepting registration applications from persons planning to run in Ukraine's May 25 snap presidential election.

KIEV, Feb. 25 - A government of popular confidence cannot include people on the list of Ukraine's richest citizens, or executive agency employees, or members of the presidential administration since the beginning 2010, according to the set of criteria formulated by Maidan activists.

KHARKIV, Feb. 24 - Kharkiv region Governor Mikhail Dobkin has decided to run for the Ukrainian presidency in May.

"Given the fact that the rights of Russian speaking people are suppressed, laws that pose a threat to those who do not take fascism and nationalism are adopted today and proceeding from the fact that one calls to destroy without trial many people who have view that differ from the opinion of the authorities, I made a decision to run for the presidency at the next election," Dobkin told journalists in Kharkiv on Monday.