KIEV, Feb. 23 - In a CNN interview, Ukrainian lawmaker Andrei Artemenko said he discussed his proposal for peace in Ukraine in January with US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who offered to deliver the plan to the Trump administration.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – The National Bank of Ukraine announced it has mitigated currency restrictions on some foreign trade transactions that would not destabilize the situation on the interbank currency market.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – Ukraine will allocate UAH 9 billion for the development and purchase of modern weapons in 2017, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday approved bills drawn up by the Finance Ministry required for the implementation of the intergovernmental agreement with Hungary on financial cooperation, development of border checkpoints, infrastructure and maintenance of bridges on the joint state border.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council has asked the Cabinet of Ministers to jointly with Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) prepare and submit to parliament a draft law on measures to limit usage of Russian telecommunications equipment at critical infrastructure facilities. The draft law should be submitted to parliament within three months time.

KIEV, Feb. 19 – About $1.5 billion is required for the restoration of Donbas according to the lowest estimates, and the possibility of creating a special trust fund is being considered, the head of the World Bank programs for infrastructure and sustainable development in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Liudmyla Butenko, said.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – Kiev police have launched a criminal inquiry after receiving reports that a group of people hurled rocks into two bank branches and office premises in the city center on Saturday.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - President Petro Poroshenko has submitted his recommendation to Parliament on Viktor Shokin's discharge as prosecutor general, the presidential press service has reported.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – Ukraine's Western partners are concerned about the transit situation between Ukraine and Russia, Jan Tombinski, head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine said at a meeting with Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarsky.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – The government crisis in Ukraine has adversely impacted the opinion of Western countries about the ability of Kiev to conduct reforms, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.