KIEV, Sept. 23 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk will pay a working visit to the United States on September 24-25 to attend the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – An advisor to the Ukrainian interior minister, Zorian Shkiriak, when speaking about the next Russian "humanitarian convoy" for Donetsk, has said that the Russian side is trying to remove equipment from defense enterprises in Donetsk city and Donetsk region on these trucks.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – A first vessel with coal from South Africa will dock in Ukraine on October 15-19, of Ukrinterenergo state enterprise Director Volodymyr Zinevych told reporters in Kiev on Tuesday.

DONETSK, Sept. 24 - Pensions and wages to budget sector employees in Donetsk region, located on the territory not controlled by Ukrainian authorities, will not be paid, the director of the health department of Donetsk Regional State Administration, Olena Petriayeva, said at an online press conference.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 24 - NATO has observed a significant withdrawal of Russian forces from inside Ukraine, but many Russian troops remain stationed nearby, an alliance military spokesman said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 - Ukraine will probably have to readjust its $17 billion loan program with the International Monetary Fund due to the country's costly conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the east, the prime minister said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The Cabinet of Ministers could revise the forecast for key macroeconomic indicators for 2014 stipulated in the draft national budget when the indicators for the first nine months of 2013 are published, First Deputy head of Presidential Administration Iryna Akimova said.

MOSCOW, Sept. 23 - If the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is concluded, the special partnership regime between Ukraine and Russia will end, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – President Viktor Yanukovych is scheduled to meet with the leaders of a number of foreign states, the heads of EU institutions and international organizations as part of his visit to the United States for the 68th session of the UN General Assembly, sources in diplomatic circles told Interfax-Ukraine.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 - President Viktor Yanukovych said Tuesday he is confident that Ukraine will sign an accord to cement ties with the European Union this year despite Russia's threatened retaliation for snubbing its own trade bloc.