KYIV, Oct 23 –Ukraine’s sharp post-quarantine economic recovery, triggered by reopening of the economy in June, is coming to an end, economic and financial data tracked by the Center for Economic Strategy (CES), show.

KYIV, Oct 25 - Ukrainians were voting Sunday in local elections that are considered a test for President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a former comedian who took office last year vowing to bring peace, uproot endemic corruption and shore up a worsening economy, the AP reported.

MOSCOW, Oct 23 - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow is preparing sanctions that will ban imports to Russia of some Ukrainian products, RFE/RL reported.

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.