KIEV, Jan. 17 – Switzerland will provide $100 million as the first tranche of financial assistance to Ukraine by the end of 2017, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Jan. 14 – Some 25% of Ukrainians as a whole approved of the activities of President Petro Poroshenko in November 2015, while 70% of citizens did not approve.

KIEV, Jan. 14 – President Petro Poroshenko said that the government expects the significant reduction of the inflation rate in the country in 2016.

KIEV, Jan. 15 – The deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade in commodities in November 2015 amounted to $131.5 million, which is 63% less than in October 2015 and 33.4% less than in November 2014, whereas Ukraine had seen a surplus of foreign trade in commodities for seven months before that, according to the State Statistics Service.

KIEV, Jan. 15 – Ukraine in 2015 moved forward on the way of reforms, and the positive decision of the European Commission on the visa free regime for Ukrainians and the launch of the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) are evidence of this, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Jan. 15 – Ukraine in 2015 moved forward on the way of reforms, and the positive decision of the European Commission on the visa free regime for Ukrainians and the launch of the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) are evidence of this, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Jan. 15 - Top US and Russian officials met Friday in Russia's westernmost outpost to discuss the Ukraine crisis amid a fresh international drive to bolster a fragile truce in the east.

ASTANA, Jan. 15 - The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France are expected to meet in Astana in late January, the Kazakh presidential press service reported.

"The meeting is expected to take place in late January," the report says.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 15 – The crisis in Ukrainian-Russian relations threatens the security of Europe and the whole world, Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma told the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

KIEV, Jan. 16 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has announced an Ukrnafta stockholders meeting to change the company's management in response to criticism relating to allegations that his political faction, the People's Front, supports tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky's interests.