KIEV, Oct. 18 - Ukraine's and Russia's leaders have reached a preliminary agreement on a price for gas supplies this winter but Kiev may need international help to pay, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Saturday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 19 - Four civilians were killed and nine wounded by shrapnel during fighting on Saturday and Sunday in eastern Ukraine's separatist stronghold city of Donetsk, local officials said.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 17 – The European Commission has included Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine in the European Gas Stress Test to see how Europe would cope in the worst-case scenario of restricted gas supplies, Vice President of the European Commission for Energy Gunther Oettinger said.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – Japan would consistently support Ukraine through coordinated efforts within the G7, of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was quoted as saying at a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Milan on October 16.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says that the organized crime control department will be liquidated as part of the reform of the interior ministry's agencies.

KIEV, Oct. 20 - The Ukrainian military's overall fatalities during the breakthrough from the encirclement near Ilovaisk in Donetsk region topped 300, the Ukrainian parliamentary commission investigating the Ilovaisk tragedy said in an interim report circulated at a press conference in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – The number of internally displaced persons from Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea has reached nearly 417,000 people, Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Volodymyr Hroisman Minister said.

KIEV, Oct. 20 - The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has denied a report by the German magazine Spiegel that the Malaysian airliner flying over Donetsk region on July 17 could have been shot down with a Buk missile system which the militia had reportedly captured from a Ukrainian military unit.

KIEV, Oct. 20 - A powerful explosion near a munitions factory rocked the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Monday, breaking windows several miles away, but there was no word of any casualties, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – Ukraine and the European Commission have agreed on a common stand at gas talks with Russia which are scheduled for Tuesday, Naftogaz Ukrayiny reported.

The agreement was reached at a meeting in Kiev on Monday, the state-owned company said.