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.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – A lawyer for Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko said Monday that President Viktor Yanukovych, his family members and closest political allies should be targeted with U.S. visa ban for their role in her imprisonment.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 – President Viktor Yushchenko completed his visit to the United States on Thursday without meeting U.S. President Barack Obama, whom he had been seeking to warn about the rising Russian threat in the region and perhaps bolster his domestic political standing in the process.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Prime Ministers of Ukraine and Russia Yulia Tymoshenko and Vladimir Putin plan to discuss cooperation between their two countries in the engineering sector and the innovation sphere as part of the meeting of heads of the CIS governments in Yalta scheduled for Nov. 20.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – The key topic of the sixth Yalta European Strategy (YES) summit, the largest nongovernmental forum for Ukraine's strategic relations with the world, which is to be held from September 24 to September 27 in Crimea, is to be the post-crisis development of Ukraine and the world, the YES press service has reported.