KYIV, April 12 – Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze expects Ukraine to receive the first tranche of macro-financial assistance from the European Union in early autumn this year.

KYIV, April 13 – The state-owned enterprise Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has reported that the plant launched programs of visits to the plant for everyone.

KYIV, April 13 - President Petro Poroshenko has announced plans to quit the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and terminate parts of a friendship treaty with Russia, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, April 12 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) maintains its expectation that Ukraine will attract $2 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2018 and predicts the next tranche will be received at the beginning of the third quarter of 2018.

KYIV, April 12 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) insists that it is critically important to boost cooperation between the Ukrainian government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the near future.

WASHINGTON, April 15 – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko warns the holders of Ukrainian eurobonds that if they don't enter serious talks on the restructuring of Ukraine's debt soon, they "face the risks of an uncertain economic, political and military climate down the road."

NEW YORK, April 15 - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Wednesday that the United States must play an important role in helping to solve the crisis in Ukraine while European resolve to come to a non-military solution remains strong, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 14 – President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law on amendments to the 2015 state budget regarding state support of the coal industry, which will ensure the timely payment of wages to coal miners.

KIEV, April 14 - The fall of Ukraine's real gross domestic product is expected to slow from 6.8% in 2014 to 5.5% in 2015, and it should recover in 2016 when it will rise by 2%, according to the World Economic Outlook published by the International Monetary Fund.

LUXEMBOURG, April 15 - Russia is deeply involved in the crisis in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Moscow separatists have seized control of a number of government buildings, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.