KYIV, Jan 28 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) raised its current account deficit forecast to 1.1% of GDP, or $2.3 billion from 1% of GDP, or $1.9 billion in 2021 due to record-high levels of reinvested earnings and dividend payments.

BRUSSELS, Jan 28 – The United States and the EU are working on alternative gas supplies to EU countries in case that Russia attacks Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a joint statement released on Friday.

KYIV, Jan 28 - President Joe Biden said Friday he would be sending American troops to Eastern Europe as the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to weigh on the U.S. and its allies, Bloomberg reported.

LONDON, Jan 29 - Britain is considering making a major NATO deployment as part of a plan to strengthen Europe's borders in response to Russia massing troops on the border with Ukraine, the government said on Saturday, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 - Russian President Vladimir Putin could possibly invade Ukraine at any point now, and that there are a number of methods at his disposal to do it, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Sunday.

BERLIN, Jan 27 – Germany will seek to continue talks with the U.S. over the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline and asked Washington to lift sanctions that have been imposed to stop the pipeline, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Jan 28 – The International Monetary Fund extended for 10 days talks with Ukraine on whether to resume $5 billion stand-by loan after the government’s recent decision to cut natural gas prices, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said Thursday.

KYIV, Jan 29 – The United Nations Office in Ukraine has presented a Humanitarian Response Plan worth $158 million aimed at financing humanitarian operations in Ukraine in 2020.

KYIV, Jan 30 – The Ukrainian side has not yet seen Iran's proper response to the investigation into the circumstances of the crash of the Boeing International Airlines of Ukraine (UIA) near Tehran, and the issue of setting up an international investigation team has not yet been resolved, said Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka.

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 - The Trump administration will propose allocating $115 million in State Department security assistance for Ukraine after seeking to decrease that number in each of its past two budget proposals, The Hill reported.