KYIV, Oct. 10 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused his predecessor on Thursday of fomenting protests to derail a peace process for the country's separatist-held east and said talks with Russia were the only way to end the five-year war there, AP reported. | More

BRUSSELS, Oct 10 – EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Federica Mogherini has said that the European Union (EU) has invested in Ukraine more than other partners have done. | More

KIEV, Oct. 10 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that he would discuss setting up a peacekeeping mission in separatist-held Donbas at a planned summit with leaders of Russia, Germany and France, Reuters reported. | More

KYIV, Oct 10 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has promised to protect the interests of the country in the issue of challenging the nationalization of PrivatBank (Kyiv) in courts by its former shareholders, although he does not plan to directly interfere in the legal proceedings. | More

KYIV, Oct 10 – Philip Morris Ukraine, British American Tobacco, JTI and Imperial Tobacco in Ukraine are mulling the possibility of decreasing production and later closing the tobacco factories on the territory of Ukraine over the adoption of the legislative requirement on the government regulation of markup on their goods by the Verkhovna Rada. | More

KYIV, Oct 10 – The level of consumer satisfaction with online purchases in Ukraine is lower than the global average, the press service of Google Ukraine has reported, based on the global research into customer experience across online retailers conducted by Kantar on behalf of Google. | More

KYIV, Oct 9 – Director of the Energy Community Secretariat Janec Kopac has assessed Ukraine's readiness for certification of new independent gas transmission system operator (TSO of Ukraine) at 90%, adding that some important aspects are to be settled for completing the process. | More

KYIV, Oct 9 – Ukraine cut daily pumping of gas to its underground gas storage (UGS) facilities by one third or 24.3 million cubic meters (mcm) in the first week of October compared with September, to 42.2 mcm, according to live data from JSC Ukrtransgaz. | More

KYIV, Oct 9 – D.Trading from DTEK energy holding has decreased import of electricity from Slovakia to the Burshtyn energy island from 102.12 million kWh in July to 67.73 million kWh in August and 28.31 million kWh in 19 days of September, while supplies of other importers and their number grew from two to seven, Ukrenergo has said. | More

KYIV, Oct. 9 - Ukraine on Wednesday refused to pull back troops in its restive east, saying for the second time this week that continued shelling by pro-Russian separatists there precluded the implementation of a disengagement agreement, Reuters reported. | More