KYIV, March 29 – Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko said that in the near term the fine under an award issued by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce would be enforced from Russia's Gazprom.

WASHINGTON, March 29 – U.S. President Donald Trump, in a recent phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said the U.S. will win the arms race if that’s the path Russia wants to go, NBC reported.

KYIV, March 29 – Owners of shopping and leisure centers in Kyiv must eliminate the faults noted in the comments of inspectors, otherwise city authorities would have to appeal to courts, Head of the Emergencies Department of the Kyiv City Administration Roman Tkachuk said.

KIEV, March 28 – The Foreign Ministry has confirmed forecasts that a visa-free regime between the European Union and Ukraine will come into effect by summer.

KIEV, March 28 – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has stopped cooperation with the National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP) due to the adoption of amendments to the e-declaration legislation, according to Deputy Justice Minister , Ruslan Riaboshapka, an NACP member. The move is in apparent reaction to the amendments’ effects on NGOs.

KIEV, March 29 - Poland temporarily closed its consulates in Ukraine after a grenade attack overnight at one of its buildings near the Polish border that Kiev said was intended to harm bilateral ties with Warsaw, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 28 – Ukraine is finishing the implementation of a contract signed in 2011 to produce and ship 121 BTR-3E1 armored personnel carriers for the Royal Thai Army.

ODESSA, March 28 - A group of Odessa regional lawmakers have signed a petition written by heads of Ukrainian regional prosecution offices for Deputy Prosecutor General and Odessa Region Prosecutor David Sakvarelidze to be sacked and barred from holding any prosecutorial office.

KIEV, March 28 – Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Groysman would like to see Dmytro Shymkiv, deputy head of the Presidential Administration, and Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, an MP from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, in his cabinet should he be nominated as a candidate for prime minister.

KIEV, March 28 - The frontrunner to head a new Ukrainian government has asked Slovak politician Ivan Miklos to serve as his finance minister if he becomes prime minister, a Slovak daily said on Monday, Reuters reported.