WASHINGTON, Jan 13 - A senior US official warned Thursday that the "drumbeat of war is sounding loud" following a week's worth of diplomacy between the West and Russia that wrapped up Thursday, CNN reported.

KYIV, Jan 12 – After the completion this summer of the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), launched in summer of 2020, which is carried out jointly with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ukraine intends to continue cooperation with the Fund under the new arrangement, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said.

KYIV, Jan 15 – Oleksandr Dubinsky, a lawmaker from President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s group in Parliament who was hit by U.S. sanctions last week, called on the group to get together immediately to discuss the situation.

KYIV, Jan 14 – The quarantine introduced in Ukraine from January 8 to January 24 will not significantly affect the hryvnia exchange rate against the U.S. dollar, adviser to the Ukrainian president on economic issues Oleh Ustenko has said.

KYIV, Jan 15 – Ukraine's Ambassador to the U.S. Volodymyr Yelchenko has said that Washington plans to allocate more than $1 billion to Kyiv in 2020.

KYIV, Jan 17 — Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has listed economic growth, human capital development, security, defense, measures to boost Ukraine's energy independence, and stepping up the crackdown on corruption among the government's priorities for 2019.

KYIV, Jan 17 - Ukraine's parliament on Thursday adopted a bill spelling out procedures for transferring church property after a new unified Ukrainian Orthodox church was granted independence, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, Jan 17 - Satellite images shot Thursday and obtained exclusively by Fox News have revealed a new Russian deployment of Iskander missile batteries and launchers near the border with Ukraine.

KYIV, Jan 16 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) expects that two tranches of the rest of $2.6 billion of the 14-month Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) opened in December 2018 would arrive in 2019, Governor of the NBU Yakiv Smolii has said.

KYIV, Jan 16 – The key challenge for the Ukrainian economy in 2019 is coming presidential election and parliamentary election, according to participants of the Open House Day at the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in Kyiv on Wednesday.