KIEV, Oct. 26 – The arrival of the mission of the International Monetary Fund to Kiev has been postponed, a source in the government told Interfax-Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Oct. 26 - A group of Ukrainian hackers has released thousands of emails from an account used by a senior Kremlin official that appear to show close financial and political ties between Moscow and separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine, The Associated Press reported.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has announced five areas of cooperation with Germany, summing up the Ukrainian-German Economic Forum held in Berlin.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, needs to pass a separate law on holding local elections in Mariupol and Krasnoarmiysk, Central Election Commission Chairman Mykhailo Okhendovsky said.

BERLIN, Oct. 25 - Ukraine will not pay off its debt to Russia if Moscow does not agree to join in a restructuring deal involving other creditors, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk told German business daily Handelsblatt, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 26 - International monitors Monday called Ukraine's weekend local elections "well organized" and "democratic" but urged its pro-Western leadership to do more against political meddling by oligarchs in the war-scarred state, AFP reported.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has approved a plan of priority measures to upgrade and enhance the state border along the coastline of Ukraine's territorial waters in Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – OPORA NGO had registered 1,118 violations of election laws in Ukraine by 04:00 Kiev time on Monday, October 26, and the violation of pre-election campaigning rules is the most frequent one, OPORA coordinator Olha Aivazovska said.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – Almost 13.8 million Ukrainian citizens came to the local elections on October 25, which is 46.62% of the total number of voters, the Central Elections Commission reported.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – European companies currently export half of the gas from the European Union to Ukraine now that the new law on the gas market has taken effect in the country, Naftogaz Ukrainy Chairman Andriy Kobolev said at the Ukrainian-German business forum in Berlin on October 23.