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.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – The human rights situation in Crimea deteriorates amidst the militarization of the peninsula, which also involves kidnapping, torture, and murder, thus providing grounds for the need to open permanent missions of international organizations there, Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko said.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin is on leave now, leading to speculation he may be about to tender his resignation.

KIEV, Feb. 17 - The Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry has reached agreement with the Russian Transport Ministry that Ukrainian semi-trailer trucks which have been stuck in Russian territory or in some Asian countries because of Russia's decision to suspend their transit passage across its territory will be able to go home unimpeded.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – After narrowly surviving a no-confidence vote, Ukraine’s government has been left politically weakened and under even fiercer pressure from foreign allies to pursue reforms needed for the release of vital aid.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – President Petro Poroshenko during a meeting with All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations has urged them not to succumb to Russian orchestrated provocations which form part of the information war.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – The operational plan of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement of the International Monetary Fund foresees that if Ukraine fulfills all preliminary measures and if the EFF is approved by the IMF Executive Board, a first disbursement will be sent to the country in the first or second week of March, Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said.