KYIV, Nov 22 – In recent years, Ukraine has shown very well that it is a good borrower and has a good plan for repaying the debt, so it is more profitable for Ukraine’s partners to provide financing to the country now, not allowing it to lose the war, according to IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine Priscilla Toffano.

WASHINGTON, Nov 23 - Secretary of State Antony Blinken is leaving Saturday on a diplomatic trip to Europe that includes a meeting of foreign ministers from the leading industrialized nations that will focus on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.

KYIV, Nov 23 – Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has accelerated the supply of new types of weapons to the army, it is expected that the process of supplying new weapons and military equipment will be reduced to 20 days.

KYIV, Nov 23 - A Russian attack using cluster munitions killed three people Thursday in a suburb of Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson, a Ukrainian official said, bringing the number of civilians to die in a day of war to at least six.

KYIV, Nov 24 – The International Monetary Fund has demanded Ukraine to appoint a special anti-corruption prosecutor by the end of November to fight corruption, Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Danylo Hetmantsev said.

KYIV, Nov 24 - Russia staged military drills in the Black Sea, south of Ukraine, on Wednesday and said it needed to sharpen the combat-readiness of its conventional and nuclear forces because of heightened NATO activity near its borders, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Nov 23 – A decrease in the incidence and hospitalization of patients with COVID-19 in Ukraine has been observed for the second week in a row, but it is still premature to talk about the full passage of the peak of the current wave, experts from the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) believe.

KYIV, Nov 24 – Ukraine is increasingly unlikely to get any lending from the International Monetary Fund before the end of the year, Tymofiy Mylovanov, a recently appointed advisor to presidential office’s chief of staff, said.

KYIV, Nov 23 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has topped the rating of trust in politicians - 46% of Ukrainians trust him, while 51% do not, according to the results of a study by the Sociological Group Rating conducted on November 15-17.

KYIV, Nov. 24 - The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday it will continue talks with Ukraine about a new support program in coming weeks following significant progress in discussions so far with Kyiv, Reuters reported.