KYIV, Oct 13 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman backed the decision of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) to bar handling of Russia’s ruble banknotes and coins with images of the annexed Crimea.

WASHINGTON, Oct 13 - The dispute over Ukraine's $3 billion eurobond bought by Russia with an overdue maturity period is bilateral, but the International Monetary Fund is interested in its speedy resolution, IMF European Department Director Poul Thomsen has said.

KYIV, Oct 13 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman denied speculations that his government has slowed down economic reforms after successfully raising money from selling Eurobonds in September.

KYIV, Oct 13 - Ukraine has ‘almost’ fulfilled key conditions for a new disbursement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Extended Fund Facility program, therefore there is every reason to expect the money as early as this year, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 16 - Hungary will “block and boycott” all attempts to draw Ukraine more deeply into the European Union unless Kiev changes a new education law, Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Szijjarto said Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 13 – Russia's main directorate on issues of migration of Russia's Interior Ministry has confirmed that Viktor Yanukovych is located in Russia on the basis of temporary refugee status, adding that Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) is aware of this fact, Yanukovych's former lawyer Vitaliy Serdiuk said.

KIEV, Oct. 17 - A prominent Russian separatist commander was assassinated in eastern Ukraine on Sunday evening, his allies said on Monday, accusing Ukrainian government forces of murdering him to try to destabilize an already fragile ceasefire, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has thanked his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama and the U.S. administration for their support of Ukraine and its peace plan, Poroshenko's press service reported, referring to a recent telephone conversation between the two leaders.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – Scrutinization of senior officials and civil servants in accordance with the new disclosure law will start on November 1, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

BRUSSELS/KIEV, Oct. 16 – There has been no interruption in gas transit through Ukraine's territory since June 16, when Russia stopped gas shipments to Ukraine, but one should not rule out the possibility of such a problem, European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger has said.