KYIV, March 24 - Ukraine is close to finishing talks for more loans from the International Monetary Fund but has no plans to restructure its debt to cope with the fallout from the coronavirus epidemic, Finance Minister Ihor Umanskiy told Reuters.

KYIV, March 23 – The deficit of the national budget of Ukraine in 2020 could increase from 2.09% to 7% of GDP, Yulia Kovaliv, the deputy head of the President's Office, has said.

KYIV, March 22 – Presidential candidate of Ukraine, commedian Volodymyr Zelensky allows for bilateral negotiations with Moscow to end hostilities in eastern Ukraine.

KYIV, March 23 – About 5,000 nationalist demonstrators have held a protest in Kyiv on Saturday calling for arrests in a defense industry corruption case, The Associated Press reported.

KIEV, March 24 - Ukraine has attracted $331 million under a loan agreement with Japan on DPL II (Development Policy Loan) and for the implementation of economic reforms, according to a posting on the website of the Finance Ministry.

KIEV, March 24 – A working visit of President Petro Poroshenko to the United States is scheduled from March 30 through April 2, the president's website has reported.

KIEV, March 24 - Ukraine's parliamentary speaker emerged on Thursday as the frontrunner to replace the unpopular Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk, signaling a breakthrough in a political crisis that has lasted months.

KIEV, March 23 – Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration officials are involved in the activities of criminal gangs operating in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said.

KIEV, March 23 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has asked the Prosecutor General's Office to verify the accusations made by the suspended head of the state financial inspectorate Mykola Hordiyenko against the Ukrainian government.

KIEV, March 24 – Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, has called on each side in the Donbas conflict to respect the ceasefire and create the conditions that will allow OSCE monitors to access the village of Shyrokyne where hostilities are ongoing.