LONDON, Jan. 21 -- Fitch Ratings, the international rating agency, has upgraded Ukraine's Long-term foreign and local currency ratings to ???BB-' (BB minus) from ???B+', according to a Fitch announcement carried by Interfax-Ukraine.

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 ??“ President-elect Viktor Yushchenko has accepted an invitation to address the prestigious World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland this month.

KIEV, Jan. 20 ??“ Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram Thursday to congratulate pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko with victory at the Ukrainian presidential election after a court had rejected an appeal from his Moscow-backed rival.

KIEV, Jan. 20 ??“ Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in as the Ukrainian president Sunday, according to Parliamentary vote Thursday, hours after Yushchenko??™s election victory announcement had been published by two official newspapers.

KYIV, Dec 22 – Almost half of Ukrainians called the coronavirus epidemic and 12% the war in Donbas a negative "event of the year," Ukrainians' expectations of 2021 in the socio-economic situation are also negative.

KYIV, Dec 19 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s foreign policy aide Andriy Yermak has announced that a meeting between the Ukrainian leader and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled for early January 2020.

KYIV, Dec. 21 - Russia and Ukraine have agreed to continue to send gasoline through Ukraine to Europe for a further five years, Energy Minister Olekskiy Orzhel said Saturday.

KIEV, Dec. 22 - The same Russian intelligence hackers who tried to influence the U.S. presidential election used computer malware to target and destroy Ukrainian artillery forces, a top cybersecurity firm said Thursday.

KIEV, Dec. 20 – Samopomich Party's parliamentary faction member Yegor Sobolev, who heads the parliament's anti-corruption committee, has asked Ukraine's National Agency for Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) to check the accuracy of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's e-declaration.

KIEV, Dec. 22 - Ukraine may contribute to the development of relations between Belarus and the EU as part of the Eastern Partnership program, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.