KYIV, Oct 23 – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a meeting in Ottawa with Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman for October 31 during the latter's visit to Canada.

PRZEMYSL, Oct 23 – Parliamentary Speaker Andriy Parubiy and Marshal of the Sejm of Poland Marek Kuchcinski have called for an increase in the number of checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border.

KYIV, Oct. 23 - Ukrainian anticorruption investigators have raided the home and office of the mayor of the Black Sea port of Odesa, who is at the center of an embezzlement probe.

KYIV, Oct 23 – The parliamentary budget committee has proposed setting the amount of funds sent by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) to the national budget in 2018 at UAH 49.55 billion.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – President Petro Poroshenko, as part of his working visit to Maastricht(the Netherlands), the president has met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and thanked him for recent aid provided by his government.

KIEV, Oct. 20 - Parliament has adopted the draft national budget for 2017 at first reading on the last day foreseen for this in the Budget Code.

Some 230 MPs supported the decision at a plenary session on October 20.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – President Petro Poroshenko on Sunday sought to dispel concerns of his domestic supporters about his Berlin meeting by insisting that Ukraine would not agree to local elections in pro-Russian separatist-controlled areas before fighting is stopped and Russian troops are removed from the territory.

MOSCOW, Oct. 23 - The director of Russia's Federal Migration Service, Konstantin Romodanovsky, said he does not know whether or not former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has received asylum in Russia or Russian citizenship.

ODESSA, Oct. 23 – President Petro Poroshenko has vowed that militant-controlled lands in eastern Ukraine will return under Kiev's control and ruled out the possibility of the east of the country becoming the site of a "frozen conflict."

KIEV, Oct. 23 – Dnipropetrovsk Regional Governor Ihor Kolomoisky and U.N. representatives are planning soon to sign a memorandum that foresees the allocation of over $2 million for internally displaced persons, the regional state administration reported.