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.

KIEV, April 16 - Ukraine could ask the International Monetary Fund to revise the criteria under which it disburses loans to Kiev, the new finance minister, Oleksandr Danyliuk, said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 14 – Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has called the strengthening of sovereignty and national security a priority for his new government.

KIEV, April 15 – President Petro Poroshenko, French President Francois Hollande, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have coordinated their positions on the prospects of deploying an OSCE police mission to Donbas.

KIEV, April 16 – The World Bank will increase the first tranche of a multi-sector project of direct budget support to Ukraine, the issue of which is scheduled for May this year, from $500 million to $750 million, reads an agreement recently achieved at talks between World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak in Washington.