BRUSSELS, Oct. 20 - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Thursday that he was pessimistic a solution could be found which allows the Netherlands to ratify an EU pact with Ukraine, raising fresh doubts about a key symbol of support for the country’s pro-Western government, The Wall Street Journal reported.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – The Ukrainian Armed Forces will receive several T-72 tanks equipped with the new NATO-standard fire control system by the end of 2015, and in 2016 the Defense Ministry of Ukraine will start buying T-84 Oplot tanks, which are currently being exported.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has filed a lawsuit against Ukraine with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in connection with alleged abuses of his human rights.

KIEV, Oct. 20 - Ukraine will cancel a deal with Russia that calls for construction of a nuclear fuel manufacturing plant, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – The current spirit of unrest in Ukraine is comparable to that which prevailed prior to the 2013-2014 Maidan demonstrations, says Oleksiy Antypovych, the head of Rating, a sociological survey group, based on the findings of a recent survey.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – President Petro Poroshenko has set a task to complete all the procedures on the appointment of a special anti-corruption prosecutor by the end of November and get this prosecutor on December 1, 2015.

KIEV, Oct. 17 – Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko discussed peaceful solutions to the conflict in southeastern Ukraine during their meeting in Milan, Poroshenko's press service reported.

KIEV, Oct. 17 – The new disclosure requirements passed by Parliament last week could apply to up to 2,000 former officials, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko said.

MILAN, Oct. 17 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that he reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need for the strict observance of the Minsk accords on achieving peace in Ukraine's east.

BERLIN, Oct. 19 - Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency has concluded that pro-Russian rebels are to blame for the downing of Malaysia Airline MH17 in Ukraine in July, Der Spiegel weekly reported on Sunday, the first European agency to say so, Reuters reported.