KIEV, Sept. 9 - A third of the Donbas territory will receive a special status but will remain a part of a united Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko Bloc leader, presidential advisor Yuriy Lutsenko said.

KIEV, Sept. 9 - The European Union must keep up pressure on Russia over its involvement in the Ukrainian war because sanctions are having an effect, British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 9 - Five Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in the past four days, the military said on Tuesday, underscoring the strains in a ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian separatists that officials insist is still broadly holding, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 8 - Donetsk Mayor Oleksandr Lukyanchenko says the military action has done "massive" damage to the city.

KIEV, Sept. 8 – Some 1,200 Ukrainian captives and hostages have been freed over the past four days, said President Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, Sept. 10 - Russia has started limiting gas supplies to Poland, disrupting reverse flows to Ukraine, Russia's RIA news agency quoted the head of Ukraine's gas transport monopoly Ukrtransgaz as saying on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 10 - President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday Russia had removed the bulk of its forces from his country, raising hopes for a peace drive now underway after five months of conflict in which more than 3,000 people have been killed, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 9 - Tripartite negotiations on gas between Ukraine, Russia, and the European Commission may take place in Vienna on September 16, Yuriy Vitrenko, the chief advisor to the Naftogaz Ukrayiny board chairman, said on the Ukrainian television channel 24 on Tuesday evening.

KIEV, Sept. 10 – President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law on sanctions.

Parliament passed the law on August 14.

KIEV, Sept. 11 – Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov has rejected the possibility of declaring the areas in Donbas controlled by militants an occupied territory.