KYIV, Nov 22 - The United Nations provided only $56 million in financial assistance to Ukraine out of the $204 million requested by various UN agencies for 2017.

KYIV, Nov 23 – The Cabinet of Ministers has created a council for strategic development that will be led by Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman. Former prime ministers joined the council.

KYIV, Nov 23 – Ukraine hopes to get at least part of EUR 600 million financial assistance package from the European Union even though the country has failed to meet all criteria, a senior official said.

MOSCOW, NOV. 23 - A separatist leader in Ukraine's east on Thursday accused a former official of trying to unseat him as a showdown between the two entered its third day, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, Nov 22 – Ukrainians are most worried about the war in eastern Ukraine and socio-economic problems, according to a sociological poll conducted during October and November in 2017. The results of the survey were presented at a press conference at the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

KIEV , Nov. 24 – Ukraine 's European partners gave an approving assessment of reforms that are taking place in Ukraine and gave assurances of their readiness to continue providing financial and political support for their implementation, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 24 – European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič and Ukraine's Energy Minister, Ihor Nasalyk, signed a new Memorandum of Understanding on a Strategic Energy Partnership between the EU and Ukraine.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 24 - President Petro Poroshenko insisted on Thursday he was confident of US support having spoken to President-elect Donald Trump on the phone about Russian "aggression,” AFP reported.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 24 - European Union leaders reaffirmed support for carrying out a 2014 pact on closer ties with Ukraine but cited "limitations" amid divisions over how far to go with a country mired in intractable corruption and conflict, Reuters reported.

KIEV , Nov. 24 – The pause in international financial support to Ukraine caused the populist policy of some political forces and their attempts to achieve early election, if protracted further than early 2017 would result in reduction of the country's forex reserves and create a serious risk to the achieved macroeconomic stability, National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva said.