KYIV, April 18 - Ukraine is expecting that at a summit in July NATO will confirm the country’s status as seeking membership in the military alliance, Vadym Prystayko, the country’s representative at the alliance, said Wednesday. | More

KYIV, April 18 – Ukraine’s slow pace in fighting corruption and failure to hike domestic natural gas prices forced the International Monetary Fund to postpone indefinitely its lending to the country, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said Wednesday. | More

KYIV, April 18 - The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the Ministry of Finance expect the country's GDP will grow by 3.6% in 2019. | More

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 16 – The U.S. will support Ukraine’s bid to join NATO, but has urged the country to speed up reforms and strengthen democracy as important first step, Kay Bailey Hutchison, the U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO, said. | More

KYIV, April 13 - A new European plan for Ukraine, dubbed as a Marshall plan for Ukraine, is already seeing preliminary stages of implementation, former Prime Minister of Lithuania and incumbent Member of Parliament of Lithuania (the Seimas) Andrius Kubilius has said, yet noting that Ukraine is facing a challenge related with the possibility of using the investment it has already received. | More

KYIV, April 16 – The movement AutoEuroForce intends to hold a picket outside the building of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on Wednesday, against the increase in prices for gasoline and diesel fuel, leader of the movement Oleh Yaroshevich has said. | More

KYIV, April 13 - President Petro Poroshenko has announced plans to quit the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and terminate parts of a friendship treaty with Russia, RFE/RL reported. | More