KYIV, April 16 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman at a meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini has stressed the need to stop Russia's aggression, including in the energy sector.

KYIV, April 16 – Some 48.8% of Ukrainians would vote for presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky and 17% for incumbent President Petro Poroshenko if the second round of the presidential election was held now, according to results of a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) from April 9 to April 14.

KYIV, April 16 – Ukrainians expect from a new president in the first 100 days of his activity a price lowering in utility tariffs, the submission to parliament of bills on lifting immunity from deputies, judges and the president, as well as the start or acceleration of investigations into the most resonant corruption crimes.

KYIV, April 17 - Ukraine's security service SBU said on Wednesday it had captured a Russian military intelligence hit squad responsible for the attempted murder of a Ukrainian military spy in the run-up to a presidential election on Sunday, Reuters reported.

KYIV, April 17 - Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday finally agreed to a debate to close a presidential campaign that has at times descended into farce, AFP reported.

KYIV, April 17 - Russia's Gazprom has enough assets abroad that can be confiscated as debt in keeping with a ruling by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko said.

KYIV, April 17 - Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk has begun a visit to Washington, D.C., where the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group are being held.

KYIV, April 17 - President Petro Poroshenko will ask the head of Orthodox Christianity to bless the creation of a Ukrainian Church independent of Russia, 10 years after the first such request has been denied.

KYIV, April 17 – A split between Ukrainian leaders may have widened after Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said he is ready to face his unnamed opponents during an expected showdown in Parliament.

KIEV, April 15 - President Petro Poroshenko had a telephone conversation with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, during which the parties discussed the implementation of reforms in Ukraine by the new government, the situation in Donbas and the plight of serviceperson and MP Nadia Savchenko, who is detained in Russia.