KIEV, Oct. 21 – Political parties will spend around UAH 2 billion during the current local election campaign, which is UAH 200 million more than was spent during the parliamentary election in 2014, experts said.

KRAMATORSK, Oct. 21 – Representatives of the UN Development Program (UNDP), as part of the Economic and Social Recovery of Donbas Region project financed by the Japanese government, plan to restore 12 infrastructure facilities in Donbas.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has protested a resolution adopted by the Russian government to put the cultural heritage sites of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol on the list of Russia's cultural heritage of federal importance.

GENEVA, Oct. 21 - Ukraine launched its first trade dispute against Russia at the World Trade Organization with a complaint about restrictions on Ukrainian-made railway equipment, the WTO said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – President Petro Poroshenko said that it is important to immediately form a powerful coalition of democratic forces in order to hold parliamentary elections on October 26 fairly and transparently.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – Ukrainian national oil and gas concern Naftogaz Ukrayiny could cover a cash shortfall in payments for gas using money from the International Monetary Fund and other international financial organizations, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – About 100 to 150 unidentified aggressively appearing men wearing masks and clothes with symbols of the Ukrainian nationalist movement Right Sector attempted to raid the Zaporizhstal metallurgy plant on Saturday morning.

KIEV, Oct. 21 - Ukraine’s national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny appealed to the arbitration court in Stockholm seeking to change its contract with Gazprom of Russia on transit of natural gas to Europe, the company reported Tuesday.

LVIV, Oct. 21 – The restoration of control over Donetsk and Luhansk regions will take years, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, Oct. 21 - President Petro Poroshenko, in a move to head off discontent before the election, signed a law on Tuesday that will allow ousted leader Viktor Yanukovych to be tried by court in his absence for crimes carried out while he was in power, Reuters reported.