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.

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.