KIEV, Sept. 20 - President Petro Poroshenko and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have discussed the prospects for implementation of projects in energy, infrastructure and ecology, as well as the preparation to hold the Year of Japan in Ukraine in 2017 at their meeting in the United States.

KIEV, Sept. 21 - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has met with his counterparts from Kazakhstan and Denmark on the sidelines of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly in the United States and discussed issues of bilateral cooperation between Ukraine and these countries.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – The police say they have launched an investigation into the circumstances of the murder of the director of Caparol Ukraine firm and criminal proceedings have been opened under the premeditated murder article.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – President Petro Poroshenko has held a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly.

KIEV, Sept. 21 - Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists agreed on Wednesday to withdraw troops from three small towns on the front line in eastern Ukraine, a pilot de-escalation project that is part of the latest push to get a much-violated ceasefire to stick, Reuters reported.

LVIV, Sept. 21 – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday an ebb in violence in eastern Ukraine was not enough to bring peace and demanded Russia withdraw heavy weapons the alliance accuses it of providing in support of separatists, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Ukraine will no longer use daylight saving time, after 266 MPs voted on Tuesday to scrap the system in the country.

"The Verkhovna Rada decrees to fix the time of the second time zone by adding one hour on the territory of Ukraine from March 27, 2011," reads the draft bill, which was authored by Oleh Nadosha from the Regions Party.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 – President Viktor Yanukovych, addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, called for a coordinated international effort to ensure global energy security.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – President Viktor Yanukovych is planning soon to visit to Singapore.

"Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, at a meeting with Viktor Yanukovych on Monday, invited him to pay an official visit to Singapore, and this visit will take place shortly," Presidential Administration head Serhiy Liovochkin told reporters in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – The Constitutional Court on Thursday will start deliberations on whether the powers of President Viktor Yanukovych be dramatically increased by canceling constitutional amendments approved back in December 2004, a newspaper reported.