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 - 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.
KIEV, Feb. 17 - Ukraine will set up a project office for reforms, whose mission will be to help the government and parliament carry out necessary reforms in the country.
KIEV, Feb. 18 - The Ukrainian government will approve on Wednesday a new edition of the "European Rampart" program to be implemented on the border with Russia, and this rampart, the same as the security line along Donbas, will be erected and reinforced, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.
KIEV, Feb. 18 - Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund have agreed on an increase in gas rates by 280% and heating tariffs by 66%, National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva said at the 11th investment conference arranged by Dragon Capital in Kiev on Wednesday.
KIEV, Feb. 18 – Ukraine will suspend payments for the electricity generated in the “anti-terrorist operation (ATO)“ zone and payments will resume only if the electricity is supplied to Ukrainian households rather than to terrorists, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.
