KIEV, Sept. 29 – The main investigations bureau of Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) has arrested a deputy mayor of Kherson and a deputy of Kherson City Council for taking a UAH 80,000 bribe, PGO head Yuriy Lutsenko has said.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - Ukraine should ramp up economic and anti-corruption reforms to pave the way for continued support from whoever wins the U.S. presidential election, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker said on a visit to Kiev on Thursday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 27 - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has declared Israel's support for Ukraine on the path toward important reforms, and said he was hoping for a swift and peaceful resolution of the conflict in Donbas.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Ukraine is confident in its legal reasoning in litigation with Russia in a London court over $3 billion eurobonds, but remains open to a possible peaceful settlement of the dispute if there are reasonable grounds, Ukraine's Finance Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - International organizations - UNICEF, UNDP and the British procurement agency Crown Agents - have supplied Ukraine with 86.43% of medicines purchased with funds of the national budget in 2015.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - Ukraine's Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman has announced that an investment support office will start working in Ukraine from next week.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - Full-scale lending may resume in Ukraine over the next few years, National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva predicts.

"Lending will fully resume only in the next few years. Loans to individuals could be a major driver," she said during the Ukrainian Financial Forum, organized by ICU in Odessa on Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has received all necessary documents from Gazprom and is ready to begin prepayment and pumping Russian gas as soon as the trilateral protocol on Russian gas supplies between Ukraine, Russia and the EU is signed, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said.

KIEV, Sept. 28 - Ukraine intends to sign a tripartite agreement on gas by the end of September, Naftogaz Ukrayiny head Andriy Kobolev said at a press conference in Kiev.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – In the framework of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, President Petro Poroshenko met with Polish President Andrzej Duda to discuss the ongoing situation in Donbas.