KYIV, Jan. 29 - Russia has shown more "openness" to U.S. suggestions on a possible UN peacekeeping mission in war-torn eastern Ukraine, but Washington and Moscow remain far from striking a deal, the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine says, RFE/RL reported Monday.

KYIV, Jan. 30 - Ukraine tested a locally made cruise missile capable of hitting land and sea targets from land on Tuesday, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov said, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Jan 29 – One in four Ukrainian citizens do not believe that Ukraine as an independent state will get to its feet in the foreseeable future, and 40% hope the country will overcome hardships in the next 10-15 years, sociologists say.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 - The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has provided the Treasury Department with a list of about 210 Russians deemed close enough to Russian President Vladimir Putin to be targets for new sanctions, Los Angeles Times reported.

KIEV, Jan. 30 – Ukraine's State Financial Monitoring Service (Derzhfinmonitoring) from March 2014 through December 2016 blocked UAH 28.54 million in assets belonging to officials of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DNR, LNR), according to the Ukrainian government's website.

KIEV, Jan. 30 – Ukraine and the European Commission have agreed to resume exports of poultry products of Ukrainian origin to the European Union in accordance with the principle of regionalization.

KIEV, Jan. 30 - President Petro Poroshenko cut short a visit to Germany on Monday after escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine killed 12 and left a small town without electricity, water and heat supply in the middle of winter.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – A meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine considered and approved the key indicators of the state defense order for 2017 endorsed by President Petro Poroshenko on Friday.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – President Petro Poroshenko insists on fully equipping tank units of the Ukrainian armed forces with retrofitted and overhauled tanks by modernizing the existing T-64 and T-80 tanks.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 28 - If a new Ukrainian government announces a different agenda and different priorities, this could theoretically serve as grounds for Moscow to revise the existing agreements with Kiev, but this possibility is not under consideration now, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said.