WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 - After months of internal debate, the Trump administration is stalled on the question of whether to provide Ukraine with the defensive weapons it has long asked for, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

KYIV, Oct. 30 - Donald Trump's former presidential campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has been charged with conspiring to defraud the US in his dealings with Ukraine, BBC reported.

KYIV, Oct 27 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman called for strengthening security measures and increasing the number of means of technical control in public places so as to prevent terrorist attacks.

KIEV, Oct. 27 - The International Monetary Fund is ready to continue cooperation with Ukraine within the EFF program if the institutional independence of the central bank is retained, IMF representative Gerry Rice said.

KIEV, Oct. 27 – Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has called on Japanese politicians and public figures not to follow the policy of appeasing the aggressor, but unite and take concrete action to make Russia stop its aggression.

MOSCOW, Oct. 27 - The share of Russians favoring a visa and customs regime with Ukraine has reached 39%, the Levada Center told Interfax, adding that this was the highest indicator since March 2008 (19%).

KIEV, Oct. 28 – President Petro Poroshenko has accepted credentials from the ambassadors of Poland, Jan Peklo, Iraq, Bakir Ahmed Aziz Al-Jawf and Azerbaijan, Azer oglu Khudayar Khudiyev.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – The ambassadors of G7 countries have warned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about the dangers of certain legislative initiatives which can negate Ukraine's efforts in combating corruption, in particular by weakening the electronic declaration system, the European Truth online publication reported.

KIEV, Oct. 28 - Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has revealed that he and his wife possess $1.8 million in cash, $100,000 in several different bank accounts, 15 properties and a collection of 12 luxury watches, BBC reported.

MOSCOW/KIEV, Oct. 30 - A convoy of Russian trucks carrying humanitarian supplies for the population of Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk regions has arrived in Russia's southern Rostov region, Oleg Voronov, deputy director of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's National Crisis Management Center, told Interfax.