KYIV, Jan 17 – President Petro Poroshenko has said that increasing the level of social standards would be the main priority in 2019, the presidential website reported.
KIEV, Jan. 18 – Nearly 170,000 citizens of Ukraine received Russian citizenship, while about 350 Ukrainians got refugee status in the Russian Federation from 2014 until 2016, First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the trilateral contact group Iryna Gerashchenko said.
KIEV, Jan. 18 – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will visit Ukraine on an official visit in 2017 and will take part in the sixth meeting of the Council of presidents of Ukraine and Azerbaijan, the press service of the Ukrainian president said on Wednesday.
KIEV, Jan. 19 – All contracts to procure medicines using 2016 budget funds have been signed and tenders have been announced, acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun said at a press conference on Wednesday.
KIEV, Jan. 19 - Japanese Ambassador Shigeki Sumi said that Japan is ready to start a cooperation program with Ukraine to develop public broadcasting and supply technical equipment, Ukraine's Information Policy Ministry reported on Thursday.
KIEV, Jan. 19 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in an interview with the Wall Street Journal expressed confidence in the continuation of the efficient cooperation between Ukraine and U.S., the press service of the Ukrainian president reported.
KIEV, Jan. 19 - Britain will stand alongside Ukraine in its confrontation with Russia because freedom cannot be "traded,“ its Defense Secretary said amid fears Donald Trump may scale back support to Kiev in a deal with Moscow, The Telegraph reported.
KIEV, Jan. 18 – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin at a meeting of 'Ukraine+Group of Friends of Ukraine in the EU' has stressed the necessity to de-escalate situation in Donbas and to establish the conditions for holding local elections in the certain parts of the country beyond Kiev's control.
KIEV, Jan. 18 – The European Commission in first quarter of 2016 will recommend that the Council of European Union introduce a visa-free travel regime for Ukrainians, Commissioner for European Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said.
MOSCOW, Jan. 19 - Russian gas giant Gazprom on Tuesday fired off a new salvo in Moscow's feud with Ukraine by demanding some $2.5 billion from Kiev for allegedly breaching its supply contract, AFP reported.
