WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 - Republican and Democratic senators said on Tuesday they expected the U.S. Congress would pass legislation restoring $250 million in military aid for Ukraine if President Donald Trump goes ahead with plans to block the assistance, Reuters reported.
KYIV, Sept. 10 - Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov plans to start making films again and to champion the rights of prisoners in Russian jails, he said on Tuesday, days after being freed in a landmark prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia, Reuters reported.
KYIV, Sept. 16 - Angry parents have protested outside the town hall in Ukraine's port city of Odessa over the deaths of two children in a fire at a children's camp, BBC reported.
KIEV, Sept. 16 - Prime Minister Voldoymyr Groysman said on Saturday the government was reviewing the way it sets domestic gas bills to make sure market prices are taken into account - a bid to answer demands under a $17.5-billion IMF aid program, Reuters reported.
KIEV, Sept. 16 – The provision of the third tranche of around $1 billion (SDR 716.11 million) by the International Monetary Fund would help to stabilize the hryvnia exchange rate, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.
KIEV, Sept. 16 - The International Monetary Fund has confirmed that there is likelihood that Ukraine would receive the fourth tranche of its Extended Fund Facility program by the end of this year, IMF Communications Department Director Gerry Rice said.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16 - The IMF executive board's approval of a disbursement of a $1 billion loan to Ukraine is positive but does not dispel concerns about Ukraine's ability to deliver on reforms agreed with the Fund, Fitch Ratings said Friday.
KIEV, Sept. 16 – The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine expressed concern about the statement by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on the deployment of "a proper and self-sufficient troop grouping in the Crimean direction."
KIEV, Sept. 17 – The Ukrainian government said that Russia may violate agreements on retaining the present regime of free trade until the end of 2015 and it is preparing for the urgent introduction of matching measures in response.
