KIEV, Nov. 18 - President Petro Poroshenko has signed law No. 786-VIII permitting soldiers of other nations to enter the territory of Ukraine for participation in multinational exercises in November-December this year, the presidential press service has reported.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – The Ukrainian government and the European Commission are to sign an agreement in Kiev on Thursday on Ukraine's accession to the Creative Europe program, Deputy Prime Minister Viacheslav Kyrylenko said.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – Yuriy Serheyev, Ukraine's permanent representative at the UN, will soon be replaced by another official, the Ukrainian presidential office has confirmed that.

KIEV, Nov. 17 – The members of Ukraine's future parliamentary coalition have proposed raising tariffs for state gas extracting companies to an economically justified level, reads the draft coalition agreement posted on the website of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – President Petro Poroshenko and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban discussed prospects for energy cooperation in a phone conversation.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 19 – Ukraine is ready to start talks with Russia, mediated by the European Union, over the so-called 'summer package' of agreements on natural gas supplies to replace the current 'winter' package.

Speaking at a conference organized by a European political centre in Brussels on Tuesday, Naftogaz Ukrayiny chief executive Andriy Kobolev said he would not try to predict the course of such negotiations.

MOSCOW, Nov. 19 – Berlin blames the disruption of an agreement on settling the crisis in Ukraine signed in Kiev in February 2014 and verified by top-ranking German, French and Polish diplomats on former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's departure from Kiev and then from Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 - U.S. President Barack Obama's choice to fill the number two spot at the State Department, Anthony Blinken, spoke favorably on Wednesday about the possibility of providing weapons to Ukraine, which is grappling with pro-Russian separatists, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Nov. 19 – Russia urged Ukraine's leaders on Wednesday to talk directly to separatists to end the conflict in the east, but Kiev rejected the call and told Moscow to stop "playing games" aimed at legitimizing "terrorists,” Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 17 - The European Union's Foreign Affairs Council said in a statement on Monday that those directly or indirectly responsible for the Boeing passenger liner crash in eastern Ukraine will be brought to justice.