KYIV, March 22 – Ukraine’s central bank shelled out more than $1 billion last week to support the country’s local currency, the hryvnia, as falling global demand for steel caused by coronavirus pandemic depletes hard currency inflow.

KYIV, March 21 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has opposed conducting tax amnesty in Ukraine, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

KYIV, March 22 - Ukraine's State Security Service on Thursday detained lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko, an ex-military helicopter navigator who became a national hero after being held in a Russian jail, on charges of planning a military-style coup, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 21 – Ukraine's State Statistics Service has reported that Ukraine's GDP grew by 2.3% in 2016, while earlier the government using the assessments of the statistics authority said that GDP grew by 2.2%.

KIEV, March 22 - Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency, the Security Service of Ukraine, said on Wednesday that it had barred Russia’s Eurovision contestant Yulia Samoylova, from entering the country, The New York Times reported.

KIEV, March 20 – Ukraine has joined the memorandum of understanding on the start of cooperation with the Working Community of the Danube Countries (WCDC).

KIEV, March 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine hopes that consultations with the International Monetary Fund on the revision of macroeconomic indicators after the blockade of trade with the certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (ORDLO) would be finished soon and the issue to provide the fourth tranche under the Extended Fund Facility program would be settled by the end of March, NBU Deputy Governor Oleh Churiy said.

KIEV, March 21 - The National Bank of Ukraine due to the blockade of trade with certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (ORDLO), has revised macro indicators for 2017 and 2018, worsening the forecast for the growth of the country's gross domestic product for 2017 from 2.8% to 1.9%.

KIEV, March 21 – Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk has said that Ukraine will provide updated macroeconomic indicators to the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday or Wednesday taking into account the consequences of the Donbas blockade.

KIEV, March 21 – The U.S. won't exchange its stance on Russian aggression against Ukraine for progress on the Syrian issue, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power said.