KIEV, Dec. 15 - At least 4,707 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since the middle of April, the United Nations said.

According to the latest estimates of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the World Health Organization, at least 4,707 people were killed and 10,322 were wounded in the conflict-ridden areas of eastern Ukraine from the middle of April through December 12, says the eighth report of the UN human rights monitoring mission posted on Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 16 – Ukraine’s international donors are not satisfied with the pace of reforms in the country, National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva said at a meeting with representatives of the largest banks in Ukraine held at the NBU on Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 16 – President Petro Poroshenko told U.S. Vice President Joe Biden over the phone that he welcomes the adoption of the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 by the U.S. Congress, the Ukrainian leader's press service reported.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 16 – New restrictive measures for Crimea and Sevastopol are in the works, the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels confirmed at its Monday meeting.

KIEV, Dec. 16 - Ukraine's separatist east passed the night into Tuesday without any shooting, President Petro Poroshenko said, hailing the first such stretch of calm as a positive signal for the next steps in a peace plan, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 16 - Russia would violate international agreements if it placed nuclear weapons in Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – If Ukraine had signed an association agreement with the European Union under the current conditions, this would have inevitably led to its economy's collapse and default due to dramatic increase in the trade deficit and insufficient foreign currency reserves, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, Dec. 16 – Participants in the pro-EU rally on Kiev's Independence Square, or Maidan Nezalezhnosti, say they demand President Viktor Yanukovych not sign an agreement on Ukraine's accession to the Customs Union during his visit to Moscow on December 17.

KIEV, Dec. 16 - President Viktor Yanukovych may secure loans from Russia on Tuesday when he meets Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin - money that could help fend off economic crisis as anti-government protests continue in Kiev, Reuters reported.

STRASBOURG, Dec. 13 – The European Parliament has expressed regret at the fact that, according to international observers' evaluations, the 2012 parliamentary elections in Ukraine failed to meet major international standards "and constitute a step backwards compared with the national elections in 2010."