KIEV, Oct. 24 – The majority of Ukrainians (53.4%) would have vote to join NATO if such a referendum were had taken place on Sunday. A total of 33.6% would have voted against it, 5.6% - wouldn't have come to the referendum at all, and 7.4% either hadn't decided yet or refused to answer, according to a poll by the Gorshenin Institute.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 24 - The European Union and Ukraine will discuss a bridging loan to Kiev next week so that the country can pay in advance for Russian gas deliveries for the coming months, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday, Reuters reported.

MONS, Oct. 24 - Russia still has troops in eastern Ukraine and retains a very capable force on the border despite a partial withdrawal, NATO's military commander said on Friday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 26 - President Petro Poroshenko hailed a sweeping victory for pro-Europe parties in an election on Sunday, saying the vote showed people backed his plan to end a separatist conflict, his pro-Western course and democratic reforms.

MOSCOW, Oct. 24 - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told the EU bloc’s leaders on Thursday that the EU’s executive body could give Ukraine a maximum $1 billion (EUR 790 million) in the near term out of its budget to help Kiev pay its gas bills, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has expressed his fear that the Russian financial crisis will have a negative impact on Ukraine and demanded that relevant ministries take appropriate actions.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – Ukraine and the EU have agreed on all of the key parameters of the agreement on a free trade area, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade Andriy Kliuyev has written on his blog on the Web site of the Korrespondent publication.

BRASILIA, Oct. 26 – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff have said that they are planning to attend the first launch of the Ukrainian Cyclon-4 rocket from the Brazilian Alcantara Launch Center in 2013.

KIEV, Oct. 25 – Kiev's Court of Appeals is likely to start considering an appeal by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko against the verdict of Pechersky District Court within a period of from one to three months from the date of the receipt of the documents, Tymoshenko's defense lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko told journalists in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – A senior opposition lawmaker on Wednesday attacked the government for last week’s signing of a free trade agreement with Russia and other CIS nations that he says contains too many trade restrictions.