KYIV, Jan 29 - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Ukraine on Thursday as part of a five-nation tour in which he is expected to reassure the country’s leaders of unwavering support from Washington.

KYIV, Jan 28 – The ratio of the state and state-guaranteed debt of Ukraine to the forecast GDP at the end of 2019 is about 50%, and the public debt is 44% compared to 60.9% and 52.3% at the end of 2018 respectively, the Ministry of Finance has said.

KYIV, Jan 28 – Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk counts on receiving EUR 500 mln of the second tranche of EU macrofinancial assistance in the first quarter of 2020.

BRUSSELS, Jan 29 – The Ukrainian issue is on the agenda of the meeting of the EU Council on Foreign Affairs, said Josep Borrell, the European Union High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy.

KYIV, Jan 29 – The international anti-corruption organization Transparency International has published the results of the survey "Corruption Perceptions Index 2018," in which Ukraine ranked 120th among 180 countries of the world.

KYIV, Jan 29 - President Petro Poroshenko has launched his campaign for re-election in March’s vote, which promises to be a bitter contest between him and a former prime minister.

KYIV, Jan 25 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has not yet discussed the opening of a new cooperation program for the country with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Acting Head of the NBU Yakiv Smolii said.

KYIV, Jan 26 – President Petro Poroshenko expects that by April the country will receive the next tranche from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as Ukraine has already fulfilled 80% of its commitments.

KYIV, Jan 25 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has improved its forecast for Ukraine's gross domestic product growth for 2018 to 3.4% from 3.2%, according to the central bank's website.

KYIV, Jan. 28 - U.S. suggestions on deploying a UN mission in war-ravaged eastern Ukraine look quite feasible and Russia will study them carefully, Kremlin aide Vladislav Surkov was quoted as saying by Russian media after meeting with his American counterpart, Kurt Volker, RFE/RL reported.