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.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - Ukraine's Justice Ministry is preparing to file a claim against the Russian Federation to the International Court of Justice alleging racial discrimination in occupied Crimea and violation of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, Deputy Justice Minister for European integration Serhiy Petukhov said.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - The foreign ministers of Germany and France urged Ukraine on Monday to quickly resolve its political crisis and recommitted themselves to efforts to resolve the separatist war in the east of the ex-Soviet state.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - In a development almost guaranteed to upset Moscow, Ukrainians have nominated for this year's Eurovision song contest a song which commemorates Josef Stalin's deportation of more than 240,000 ethnic Tatars from their homeland in Crimea.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – Accusations of corruption threaten the consolidation of society in Ukraine, according to Foreign Ministers of France and Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Jean-Marc Ayrault.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – Odessa Regional Governor and leader of the "Rukh za ochyschennia" [Cleaning Up Ukraine] anti-corruption movement, Mikheil Saakashvili sees early parliamentary elections as the only way out of the current political crisis in Ukraine.