KYIV, Jan 22 - Ukraine is obliged to continue carrying out reforms in 2018 despite the upcoming elections, including because of its obligation to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), without cooperation with which the country will not be able to fulfil its debt obligations, Head of the Group of Strategic Advisors for Support of Reforms in Ukraine Ivan Miklos said.

KYIV, Jan 22 – Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said she believes the year 2018 is the most important year for European integration of Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 - U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker says he is scheduled to hold a new round of talks with Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov in Dubai on Jan. 26, the Voice of America reported Monday.

KYIV, Jan. 23 - President Petro Poroshenko has met with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, in Kyiv to discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine, RFE/RL reported.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – President Petro Poroshenko has held productive meetings and talks with the leaders of states and heads of international organizations at Davos, the official website of the president reported.

KIEV, Jan. 23 – A recently foiled plot to kill a Ukrainian lawmaker led investigators to believe the murder of a prominent journalist in Kiev last year was carried out by Russian security services, the lawmaker said Monday.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – The Ukrainian defense budget for 2017 will be enough to train 269 Air Force military crews and 25 brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Deputy Defense Minister Oleh Shevchuk said.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – President Petro Poroshenko in the framework of the World Economic Forum in Davos and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc have discussed the issue of holding a Ukraine-Vietnam Summit in 2017.

DAVOS, Jan. 20 – Parliament deputy Serhiy Taruta said top Ukrainian officials currently in power have not lived to the hopes of the international community.

KIEV, Jan. 21 – Ukrainian Wikipedia has reported it will protest against the amendments to the legal system recently passed by Parliament and signed by the president.