MOSCOW, Oct. 29 - The director of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature has been detained by police on suspicion of inciting ethnic hatred.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - Ukraine will cut imports of Russian natural gas starting November 1 and will focus on increasing imports of European gas, Andriy Kobolev, the head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - Ukrainian armed forces and pro-Russian separatists on Thursday exchanged 20 prisoners in a goodwill gesture, AFP reported. The swap took weeks to organize and was the first of its kind since September 8.

KIEV, Oct. 28 - President Petro Poroshenko said that the elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR, respectively) on November 2 undermine the peace process in Donbas.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - Members of a joint investigative group from the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Ukraine, Malaysia and the European Union's Judicial Cooperation Unit (Eurojust) decided on Wednesday to press ahead with their probe.

MOSCOW, Oct. 29 – A Russian Emergency Situations Ministry convoy carrying humanitarian aid for residents of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine, which departed Russia's Moscow region on Tuesday, should reach the Rostov region in the early hours of Thursday, says Oleg Voronov, a deputy chief of the Emergency Situations Ministry national crisis management center.

KIEV, Oct. 29 – Ukraine will switch to a single wholesale price of gas for all categories of consumers starting May 2015, reads a draft coalition agreement proposed by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and posted on its Web site on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 29 - The European Union and United Nations condemned plans to hold elections in rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine on Sunday, with the EU explicitly denouncing Moscow's support for the separatists' plans, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - Arseniy Yatseniuk said on Wednesday he expected to stay on as prime minister at the head of a new pro-Europe, reformist government as his party hung on to a slight lead in last Sunday's election with the vote count nearly complete, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 29 - Ukraine and Russia bargained late into the night on Wednesday but European Union officials trying to broker a deal to resume gas supplies to Kiev as winter sets in said there was still no accord to announce, Reuters reported.