KYIV, Sept 23 – Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said that among the conditions for lifting the 'economic blockade' of Donbas is the return of its enterprises to Ukraine, however, the authorities plan to substitute the order on the list of goods permitted to transport for the list of prohibited ones.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 – Two prominent U.S. Senate Republicans asked the White House to release information about the phone call between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, TPM reported on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 22 – International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde has called Ukraine's creditors to support the country's restructuring offer, according to a letter she has written to the financial community.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - Russia is planning a second major military base near the border with Ukraine, where NATO accuses Russian troops of helping pro-Moscow separatists fight Kiev's forces, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - The high price of Russian natural gas could force Ukraine to halt practically all purchases, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

"We are reducing purchases of Russian gas, we have to engage in diversification, buy this gas on other markets, and we have to reduce gas consumption and switch boiler houses from gas to coal.

YALTA, Sept. 23 – The possibility of supplying European goods to Russia and Customs Union countries under the guise of Ukrainian products after the creation of a free trade area between Ukraine and the EU is hypothetical, and Ukraine can guarantee that this will not happen, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

MOSCOW, Sept. 23 - Russia issued a new warning to Ukraine on Monday that Moscow could respond with protectionist barriers if its former Soviet ally joins a free trade pact with the European Union, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – President Viktor Yanukovych has called on Polish companies to join in the construction of a terminal for the delivery and re-gasification of liquefied natural gas in Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – Former Federal Chancellor of Austria Alfred Gusenbauer and former President of the European Commission Romano Prodi have said that cooperation is the right decision to take in relations between Ukraine and the European Union.

The politicians expressed this opinion in an article entitled "Ukraine Shows its Readiness to Cooperate with the EU. Europe Should be Proud of It," published in Austrian newspaper Die Presse.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – Ukraine will appeal against the ruling of Kiev Economic Court on the payment of over UAH 3.1 billion (around $390 million) of the debts of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine Corporation to the Russian Defense Ministry by the Ukrainian government.