KIEV, May 16 – The long lines commonly seen outside foreign embassies in Kiev will likely become a thing of the past next month, when some hundred countries grant visa-free entry to Ukrainians.

KIEV, May 16 – President Petro Poroshenko on Monday ordered the blocking of access to Russia's most popular social media websites and search engines as part of sanctions approved for the annexation of Crimea.

KIEV, May 15 – The transport corridor that would connect the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, Gdansk and Odessa, will pass Vinnytsia region, and this is a top priority of Ukraine's Infrastructure Ministry, according to Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan.

KIEV, May 15 – The decision to finish the ratification of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement could be made by the end of May, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said.

KIEV, May 15 – Ukraine and Israel want to extend bilateral economic cooperation and are working on signing a Free Trade Area (FTA) Agreement by the end of this year, according to Ukrainian and Israeli prime ministers Volodymyr Groysman and Benjamin Netanyahu.

KIEV, May 16 – Some 1,228 citizens of Ukraine, Russia and other countries have been put on the list of individuals who fall under sanctions by a resolution of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

KIEV, May 16 – A fact-finding mission consisting of members of the European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee will visit Ukraine on May 16-19.

KIEV, May 16 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden have agreed to sign a bilateral agreement under which the U.S. would extend the third tranche of loan guarantees worth $1 billion to Ukraine, the Ukrainian presidential press service reports.

KIEV, May 16 – Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Pavlo Rozenko and representatives of the mission of the International Monetary Fund led by Ron van Rooden discussed comprehensive reformation of the country's pension system, removing the deficit and balancing the budget of the Pension Fund.

KIEV, May 16 – A scandal marred the creation of a committee in Parliament to investigate offshore accounts after it emerged that one of its appointed members may be linked to an official that will be investigated.