KYIV, Feb 16 – The agreement on cooperation in the field of security and long-term support between Ukraine and the Federal Republic of Germany, signed on Friday in Berlin by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, is designed for 10 years and provides, in particular, support for Ukraine at a level of more than EUR7 billion for 2024, reports the press service of the head of the Ukrainian state.

KYIV, Feb 17 – Ukraine is prepared to receive a flight from Wuhan (Hubei Province, China) that will evacuate 49 citizens of Ukraine and 25 foreigners, Deputy Health Minister Viktor Liashko said Monday.

KYIV, Feb 18 – The government will aim to create at least 200,000 new jobs in Ukraine by the end of the year and to reduce time for anyone searching for a job to two months, Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk said.

KYIV, Feb 18 - A Ukrainian soldier was killed and four others injured on Tuesday when heavy fighting erupted in eastern Ukraine, the country's military said, as it and Russian-backed separatists blamed each other for the flare-up, Reuters reported.

MUNICH, Feb 18 - Ukraine is ready to consider any initiatives relating to security in Europe, President Petro Poroshenko said, speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

KYIV, Feb 17 – Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin at the 55th Munich Security Conference has spoken about threats posed by the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline for the security of European countries, the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

BRUSSELS, Feb 18 – Ukraine's foreign minister asked the European Union on Monday for hundreds of millions of euros in loans and aid for infrastructure and businesses in its troubled east and south, regions he said Russia was trying to "suffocate," Reuters reported.

KYIV, Feb 15 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has no time frame for the arrival of the mission to Ukraine as part of the fourth revision of the EFF program, IMF Spokesperson Gerry Rice said.

KYIV, Feb. 18 - A few thousand protesters in Kyiv called for the removal of President Petro Poroshenko, while Ukrainian nationalists separately smashed windows and defaced three Russia-linked buildings in a day of demonstrations in the capital, RFE/RL reported.

KIEV, Feb. 16 - Ukraine hopes the European Union will block the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as a project that increases monopolization of the European market and causes considerable damage to Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland, and hopes to attract investors for the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS), the most efficient and reliable mode to transit Russian natural gas into Europe, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.