WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 - U.S. President Donald Trump has spoken by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discussed the need to bring peace to Syria and Ukraine among other matters, the White House said.

KIEV , Nov. 22 – Ukraine 's Cabinet of Ministers has transferred UAH 652.5 million of assistance from the European Union to the Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry to finance regional development programs and projects.

MOSCOW , Nov. 22 - Vice President of the European Commission for the Energy Union Maros Sefcovic will hold negotiations with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak on November 25 in Moscow , according to the official schedule of the European official posted on the website of the European Commission.

KIEV, Nov. 23 - If early parliamentary elections were called in Ukraine in the near future, more than 70% of Ukrainians would be willing to cast their ballots, as is seen from a public opinion survey conducted by the Sofia center of social studies.

KIEV , Nov. 23 - The total amount of subsidies paid to families for housing and utility services in Ukraine amounted to UAH 3.214 billion in January-October 2016, which is UAH 2.309 billion, or 3.6 times up year-over-year, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, Nov. 23 – Ukrainians are becoming increasingly more discontented with the work of the national government bodies and institutions; in particular, 74.5% of them disapprove of President Petro Poroshenko's performance to a greater or lesser degree, as is seen from a public opinion survey conducted by the Sofia center of social studies.

KIEV , Nov. 23 – The international investigation group probing the downing of the Boeing passenger airline MH17 in Donbas during July 2014 will ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to review the crime as a result of state treason committed by ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, as well as the subsequent occupation of Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 23 - Germany and France have proposed a meeting next week with Russia andUkraine to quell violence in eastern Ukraine, Deutsche Welle reported Wednesday. A meeting last month led to a short de-escalation in fighting.

KIEV, Nov. 20 – Ukraine has never bought the man-portable air-defense systems (MPADS) from China said to be possessed by ISIS terrorists and the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not possess them, said Andriy Lysenko, the Ukrainian presidential administration's spokesman for the country's “Anti-Terrorist Operation."

KIEV, Nov. 20 - Head of Odessa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili has demanded that Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk revoke a contract on gas purchase signed by Odessa Port-Side Plant.