KYIV, Oct 22 - The Ukrainian government should expand the program of subsidies for the population due to an increase in natural gas tariffs, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

KYIV, Oct 24 - Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said on Wednesday he hoped Parliament would pass the 2019 budget by Dec. 1, adding that the government did not plan to raise gas prices again during the heating season running to April, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 24 - Cyber attacks using malware called “BadRabbit” hit Russia, Ukraine and other nations on Tuesday, affecting Interfax news agency and causing flight delays at Odessa airport, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Oct 25 – Acting head of the State Service for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre (Derzhgeocadastre) Oleh Tsviakh has been suspended.

KYIV, Oct 25 - Experts have proposed creating demilitarized free economic zones in certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (ORDLO), Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction deputy and head of the Center for the Study of Russia and Occupied Territories Vadym Denysenko said.

KYIV, Oct. 25 - A blast in Ukraine's capital Kyiv has killed a man and injured three others, including an MP, in what officials say may have been an assassination attempt, BBC reported.

KIEV, Oct. 25 - President Petro Poroshenko has warned that Russian-backed rebels in his country’s east boast more artillery, tanks and armored vehicles than Germany’s armed forces, Newsweek reported.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – Some 30% of Ukrainians would travel abroad for permanent residence if they could, according to the opinion poll conducted by the sociological group "Rating."

At the same time, 65% of respondents would not like to leave Ukraine forever.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov and Turkey's Undersecretary for Defense Industry Ismail Demir have discussed cooperation between leading enterprises of the two countries' defense industries and the implementation of joint projects in military and technical cooperation, the NSDC's official website said on Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 25 – Ukraine, Montenegro, Albania, Norway, and Liechtenstein have joined the anti-Russian sanctions that were extended by the Council of the European Union until March 15, 2017, for undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.