BRUSSELS, March 20 - The EU Foreign Affairs Council has discussed the EU's relations with Ukraine, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini has said.

KYIV, March 20 - Ukraine wants to help the U.K. push back against Russia — by bringing British diplomats expelled by the Kremlin to Kyiv, where they could work on a more fruitful bilateral relationship, Politico reported.

KIEV, March 16 – President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree implementing the March 15 decision by Ukraine's National Defense and Security Council (NDSC) to temporarily halt cargo shipments across the line of demarcation between Ukrainian troops and combined Russian-separatist militant groups in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

WASHINGTON, March 16 – The United States does not recognize Russia's "referendum" of March 16, 2014, and accuse Russian authorities of violation of rights of peninsular residents, acting State Department spokesperson Mark C. Toner said.

KIEV, March 17 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has called for continuing cooperation with the International Monetary Fund to resolve the problems accumulated in the country.

KIEV, March 20 – The transport blockade of the Ukrainian government uncontrolled areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions would slow down growth of the Ukrainian economy in 2017 by around 1 percentage point, but the impact on the balance of payment would be larger, Dragon Capital Senior Economist Olena Belan said.

KIEV, March 20 - The Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund has slightly postponed a meeting, initially scheduled for Monday, to discuss completion of the third review of its extended fund facility program for Ukraine, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry said on its website.

KIEV, March 20 - Paul Manafort, who served as President Trump’s campaign chairman during the summer of 2016, is wanted for questioning in a Ukrainian corruption case.

KIEV, March 17 – The last three weeks ahead of the referendum in the Netherlands on the Ukraine-EU Association agreement will be used to promote a pro vote by the Dutch, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large Dmytro Kuleba said.

MOSCOW, March 20 - Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko awaits the verdict in her controversial trial over the murder of two Russian journalists with few doubting she will be found guilty in a ruling that will fuel the feud between Kiev and Moscow.