CHISINAU, Nov. 20 - Ukraine will carry on its European integration course despite the war, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"The ongoing war in Ukraine is not an excuse for stopping reforms. There is the presidential strategy, Ukraine 2020, which aims at further integration between Ukraine and the European Union.

TALLINN, Nov. 20 - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has called on Russia to comply with the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine.

VIENNA, Nov. 20 - Prospects for peace in eastern Ukraine are "bleak", underscoring the need to uphold a shaky ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian separatist rebels, a senior official from the OSCE security watchdog said on Thursday, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 - The United States plans to increase non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine, including deliveries of the first Humvee vehicles, having decided for now not to provide weapons, U.S. officials said, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Nov. 20 – There is a danger of the monopolization of the mass media in Ukraine by one political force, according to MP Mykola Tomenko, head of Parliament's Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information.

KIEV, Nov. 20 – The Cabinet of Ministers has ordered the creation and maintenance of a tourist web portal in foreign languages called "Welcome to Ukraine," according to government resolution No. 888 of November 7.

KIEV, Nov. 19 – Ukraine's current population was 45,559,235 people as of October 1, 2012, while the permanent population was 45,378,880 people, which was 177 people more than on September 1, 2012, the State Statistics Service stated on its official Web site.

KIEV, Nov. 20 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov will travel to Moscow on Wednesday for a meeting with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev to discuss natural gas sector issues, a government spokesman said Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 20 - Ukraine’s jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko asked international medical organizations Friday to help examine and treat her worsening health conditions, The Associated Press reported.

KIEV, Nov. 20 – Arseniy Yatseniuk, the leader of Ukraine’s second most popular opposition group, called on smaller opposition groups to join forces ahead of the October 2012 general election to defeat the pro-government Regions Party.