KIEV, Nov. 24 - Ukraine will survive the winter even if Russia completely shuts down its natural gas supplies amid escalating tensions over energy, Andriy Kobolev, the head of the national Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said.

KIEV, Nov. 23 – Ukraine's GDP fell by 11.8% in January-October 2015 year-over-year, while in January-September it fell by 13%, he Economic Development and Trade Ministry reported.

KIEV, Nov. 23 – The government has moved, at the initiative of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk, to temporarily ban transportation of cargo through the administrative border between Ukraine and Crimea.

KIEV, Nov. 23 – National Crimean Tatar leader and the President's Commissioner for the Rights of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Jemilev said that maintenance crews will be allowed to access damaged electric power lines in Kherson region.

MOSCOW, Nov. 23 – The emergency situation surrounding power supply to Crimea that occurred after all four electrical transmission lines in Kherson region that supply the peninsula were blown up may continue until the commissioning of the first phase of the power bridge across the Strait of Kerch expected on December 22, Crimean leader Sergei Aksionov said.

KIEV, Nov. 21 – The resumed artillery shelling of Ukrainian territory by Russia means that the Russian side does not want to start fulfilling the Minsk agreements, Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) said.

CHISINAU, Nov. 20 - Ukraine and Moldova have to resolve a lot of common issues in their way toward joining Europe, said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, Nov. 21 - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Friday condemned Russia's behavior in Ukraine as "unacceptable" and said Moscow should abide by a September peace deal and pull its military forces out of the country, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Nov. 20 – President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law ensuring the rights and freedoms of internally displaced persons, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on October 20 (bill No. 4490a-1).

KIEV, Nov. 20 – Some 64% of Ukrainians prefer country's joining the European Union rather than the country's accession to the Customs Union (17%), and 19% are undecided yet, according to a poll by the Rating Sociological Group.