KIEV. Feb 14 - Further blocking of rail cargo traffic to and from Donbas will lead to a crisis in the energy and metallurgical sectors, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said, adding that the supply of critical goods should be unblocked.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – Russia, being a signatory to the Minsk peace accords, consisting of the Minsk Protocol, the memorandum and the package on the implementation of these agreements, has not fulfilled a single clause of the Minsk accords, Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement.

KIEV, Feb. 12 – President Petro Poroshenko has denied that cooperation with the International Monetary Fund is in question, pointing to a conversation he had this week with IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde.

MUNICH, Feb. 13 - Violence in eastern Ukraine is intensifying and Russian-backed rebels have moved heavy weaponry back to the front line, international monitors warned on Saturday as Moscow responded by accusing the West of dragging the world back 50 years, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 12 – The new agreements reached in Minsk are a chance to rebuild ruined Donbas and, if disrupted, Russia will be held responsible, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis said.

KIEV, Feb. 13 – Ukraine is working on the fulfillment of every provision of the Minsk deal, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

KIEV, Feb. 13 – The hryvnia will strengthen after the resumption of Ukraine's cooperation with the International Monetary Fund program and the practical implementation of the Minsk agreements, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 13 – Ukraine and the EU must efficiently coordinate actions for all the parties to fulfill and comply with the Minsk agreements, said President Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – Ukraine plans to borrow $1 billion to establish a strategic reserve of natural gas and fuel oil to cover local needs in emergency situations, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Saturday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – Ukraine's military said on Sunday pro-Russian rebels had shelled Ukrainian positions on 10 separate occasions since a ceasefire came into effect at midnight.