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.

KIEV, April 17 – The U.S. Department of State has advised its citizens to defer non-essential travel to Ukraine, as well as cancel all trips to eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The United States said on Thursday it would send Ukraine's armed forces medical supplies, sleeping mats and other non-lethal aid, seeking to signal support for Kiev while stopping far short of adding any U.S. weaponry to a deepening standoff with Russia, Reuters reported.

GENEVA, April 17 - The United States, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union called after crisis talks on Thursday for an immediate halt to violence in Ukraine.

President Barack Obama said the meeting in Geneva between Russia and western powers was promising but that the United States and its allies were prepared to impose more sanctions on Russia if the situation fails to improve.

KIEV, April 16 – The Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine will hold a tender and sign a contract with its winner to carry out an information campaign to raise the awareness of Ukrainians about European integration.

KIEV, April 17 – A range of problems is hindering the signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU apart from the imprisonment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

KIEV, April 17 – A senior ruling party lawmaker on Wednesday denied speculation that President Viktor Yanukovych is secretly seeking to replace Prime Minister Mykola Azarov with First Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov.