KYIV, Oct 16 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been considering a plan for free economic area in Donbas for some time now in order to finance restoration of the economy in the region destroyed by war, Oleh Ustenko, Zelenskiy’s advisor, said.

KYIV, Oct. 18 - Ukraine's parliament on Thursday voted to hand over a landmark Kyiv church to the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate after it agreed to recognize the independence of Ukraine's Orthodox Church.

KYIV, Oct. 18 - Ukraine has set up a group to stop any attempt by Russia to influence next year’s elections, Reuters reported Thursday citing a state security body.

KYIV, Oct 18 - Vasyl Yurchyshyn, head of economic programs at the Razumkov Center, said the growth of the people’s economic solvency index, but predicted a worsening of the indicators of economic stability already in the autumn-winter period.

KYIV, Oct. 19 - Protesters calling for President Petro Poroshenko to enact anticorruption reforms or step down notched a small victory on October 19 as parliament sent a bill on lifting lawmakers' immunity from prosecution to the Constitutional Court for review, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Oct. 19 - Ukrainian lawmakers voted through a long-delayed overhaul of the health system on Thursday that the state's Western backers say will raise standards and tackle a culture of bribe-taking in surgeries and hospitals, Reuters reported.

BERLIN, Oct. 19 – Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia agreed on Wednesday to draft a road map within weeks to ease confrontation between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatist forces in Donbas.

OSLO, Oct. 18 - President Petro Poroshenko has called on Norwegian companies to take part in privatization in Ukraine, where Norway will assist Ukraine in implementing important reforms.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko has asked the government and society to discuss how to reduce budget expenses in 2016.

KIEV, Oct. 19 - Following the cash-strapped former Soviet country's success in reaching a major debt write-off restructuring deal, Standard and Poor's today upgraded Ukraine's credit rating on Monday from "selective default."