KIEV, July 18 - President Petro Poroshenko and Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili discussed trade cooperation to boost goods turnover between the countries to at least $1 billion in the near future.

KIEV, July 19 - Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk on Wednesday met Gosta Ljungman, a new resident representative of the International Monetary Fund. Ljungman earlier this month replaced Jerome Vacher, who held the post for four years.

MINSK, July 19 - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko will pay an official visit to Ukraine on Thursday and Friday, the presidential press service said.

ODESSA, July 19 - A flotilla of 30 navy ships from Ukraine, the U.S., Turkey, Romania and Georgia will participate in exercise in the Black Sea this month as tensions increase in eastern regions where the government forces are fighting Moscow-backed separatists.

KIEV, July 17 – The U.S. trusts the conclusions of the commission of the Dutch Safety Board about the causes and circumstances of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash over Donbas on July 17, 2014, and will continue to cooperate with the Joint Investigation Team, the U.S. State Department said.

KIEV, July 18 – Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said that there is likelihood that the directors of the International Monetary Fund could discus the new tranche for Ukraine in July, and Ukraine could receive $4.3 billion by the end of this year.

KIEV, July 18 - The process of settlement of the conflict in Donbas requires holding a large international security conference involving all the parties involved in the confrontation, MP Serhiy Taruta said after a meeting with members of the British parliament and experts in London.

KIEV, July 18 – Parliament Speaker Andriy Parubiy says consensus and a majority of votes could be secured for decentralization-related amendments to Ukraine's Constitution if the provisions concerning special self-government in certain areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions were withdrawn.

KIEV, July 19 - Ukraine said Tuesday seven of its soldiers had been killed and 14 wounded in "very heated" fighting that marked the bloodiest clashes with pro-Russian separatists in two months, AFP reported.

MOSCOW, July 17 - Russia has created all the conditions for Ukraine to buy Russian gas, so there is no need to sign any binding protocols on gas supplies for the third quarter, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters.