KIEV, June 13 – The Ukrainian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry is to start functioning in autumn 2016, and the ninth meeting of the Ukraine-Germany High Level Group on Economic Cooperation will be held soon, President Petro Poroshenko said.

BRUSSELS, June 13 - Russia continues to keep its troops on Ukrainian territories controlled by separatists in eastern parts of the country, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday.

KIEV, June 17 – President Petro Poroshenko has met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (1997-2007) and invited him to join the International Advisory Council on Reforms under the Ukrainian president.

KIEV, June 18 – The IMF is waiting for the Ukrainian authorities to fulfill its promises to transfer farmers to the general taxation system starting January 1, 2016.

KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine is fulfilling all its debt obligations despite strained restructuring talks and is not treating its $3 billion debt to Russia differently from its other bonds, Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine's parliament Thursday approved two laws on central bank independence, leaving five more to be passed in order to unlock the next tranche of financial aid from the International Monetary Fund, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, June 16 – Ukraine's Interior Ministry has put the Russian Embassy in Kiev under tighter security after an attack on the building on Saturday, the Kiev police authority said on Monday.

KIEV, June 17 – President Petro Poroshenko held a meeting with Open Society Foundation founder George Soros, at which Soros informed the head of state about the group's initiative to create strategic plan of reforms for Ukraine.

GENEVA, June 18 - Armed separatists in eastern Ukraine have achieved nothing but the creation of a climate of insecurity which is ruining their own region, U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Wednesday.

KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine's prime minister ordered security to be reinforced on the country's gas pipeline network on Wednesday to prevent sabotage after the interior minister said an explosion at one pipeline had been caused by a bomb, Reuters reported.