KYIV, Oct 17 – Ukraine is negotiating with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the formula of calculating gas prices for domestic consumers before the complete liberalization of the market, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

ZHYTOMYR, Oct 17 – The financing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be increased from UAH 64.5 billion in 2017 to almost UAH 84 billion in 2018, according to the draft state budget, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KYIV, Oct 17 – The International Monetary Fund has not yet discussed the date for the next team coming to Kyiv within the fourth review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program, IMF First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton said.

KYIV, Oct. 17 - Former Georgian leader and former Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili told a mass rally in Kiev on Tuesday that President Petro Poroshenko needed to quit as activists set out demands for the government to tackle entrenched state graft.

KYIV, Oct. 18 - A massive anti-corruption street protest outside the parliament building continued for the second day in Ukraine as President Petro Poroshenko had refused to meet protesters on Wednesday.

KYIV, Oct 18 - Gamma radiation levels in the near zone from the fourth reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) shrank on average by ten times after the sliding of the New Safe Confinement (NSC), the press service of the State Agency on Exclusion Zone Management has reported.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – Unaffiliated MP Serhiy Taruta has proposed to include the issue of dismissing National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva on the agenda of the Verkhovna Rada's session this plenary week.

KIEV, Oct. 17 - The Cabinet of Ministers has presented the reforms delivery office (RDO) affiliated with the Ukrainian prime minister headed by the Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Oleksandr Sayenko and Reform Support Teams (RSTs) in the ministries.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – The People's Front faction has decided it will not vote for the budget Parliament adopts its bill on special confiscation, Justice Minister and member of the party Pavlo Petrenko said.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – A mission of the International Monetary Fund is expected to arrive in Kiev on October 26 to determine Ukraine's eligibility for further assistance under its Extended Fund Facility, the Finance Ministry announced.