KYIV, April 17 – A split between Ukrainian leaders may have widened after Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said he is ready to face his unnamed opponents during an expected showdown in Parliament. | More

KYIV, April 17 - President Petro Poroshenko will ask the head of Orthodox Christianity to bless the creation of a Ukrainian Church independent of Russia, 10 years after the first such request has been denied. | More

KYIV, April 17 - The index of business expectations of enterprises in Ukraine for the next 12 months has reached the highest level since the second quarter of 2011 - 120.6%, according to a survey of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on business expectations, which was conducted in the first quarter of 2018. | More

KYIV, April 17 - Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk has begun a visit to Washington, D.C., where the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group are being held. | More

KYIV, April 17 - Russia's Gazprom has enough assets abroad that can be confiscated as debt in keeping with a ruling by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko said. | More

KYIV, April 16 - The Ukrainian natural gas transit route is strategic for the EU's energy security, and Germany's involvement in finding a solution that would safeguard its commercial viability is much appreciated and needed, European Commission Vice President for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic has said. | More

KYIV, April 16 - Croatia sees Ukraine in a group of countries for which the LNG terminal on the Croatian coast can contribute to the diversification of gas supply, the press service of Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze has reported, following the first meeting of the joint Ukrainian-Croatian commission on economic cooperation in Zagreb on Monday. | More

KYIV, April 16 – Two Chinese companies have won a tender of public joint-stock company Ukrgazvydbuvannia to attract external contractors to drill seven wells at three fields announced in March. The Ukrainian company saved 10.7% on the cost of drilling services: the cost fell from the expected UAH 1.988 billion to UAH 1.776 billion (VAT included). | More

KYIV, April 16 – Exports of Ukrainian agriculture products to European countries in January-February 2018 increased by 28.1%, or by $224.7 million, and amounted to $1.025 billion compared to the same period of 2017, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported citing deputy minister for European integration, Olha Trofimtseva. | More

KYIV, April 13 – Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Robert Karem have discussed security issues related to Russian aggression that poses a threat not only to Ukraine, but also to the entire world. | More