BRUSSELS, Jan 12 - Russia has not committed to de-escalate on the Ukrainian border after two rounds of diplomatic talks this week, Deputy US Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Wednesday, CNN reported.

KYIV, Jan 11 – There is no deterioration in the epidemiological situation for coronavirus (COVID-19) disease in Ukraine yet, an increase in the incidence can be expected at the end of January, the Health Ministry’s Chief Doctor Ihor Kuzin has said.

KYIV, Jan 13 – Russian President Vladimir Putin will probably not launch a major invasion of Ukraine, because he understands that this threatens with serious Western sanctions against the Russian Federation and the strengthening of Ukraine's weapons, Senior Director of the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in 2003-2006 John Herbst said.

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 – US Democratic senators in a bill providing for sanctions against Russia in case of an attack on Ukraine call for measures to prevent Nord Stream 2 from ever starting operation.

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.