KYIV, Jan 29 – The United Nations Office in Ukraine has presented a Humanitarian Response Plan worth $158 million aimed at financing humanitarian operations in Ukraine in 2020.

KYIV, Jan 30 – The Ukrainian side has not yet seen Iran's proper response to the investigation into the circumstances of the crash of the Boeing International Airlines of Ukraine (UIA) near Tehran, and the issue of setting up an international investigation team has not yet been resolved, said Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka.

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 - The Trump administration will propose allocating $115 million in State Department security assistance for Ukraine after seeking to decrease that number in each of its past two budget proposals, The Hill reported.

KYIV, Jan 29 – A team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will probably come to Ukraine in mid-February, head of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Bohdan Danylyshyn said.

KYIV, Jan 29 – European Bank for Reconstruction and Development President Suma Chakrabarti called on the Ukrainian authorities to accelerate their efforts in the fight against corruption.

KYIV, Jan. 29 - Russia has shown more "openness" to U.S. suggestions on a possible UN peacekeeping mission in war-torn eastern Ukraine, but Washington and Moscow remain far from striking a deal, the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine says, RFE/RL reported Monday.

KYIV, Jan. 30 - Ukraine tested a locally made cruise missile capable of hitting land and sea targets from land on Tuesday, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov said, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Jan 29 – One in four Ukrainian citizens do not believe that Ukraine as an independent state will get to its feet in the foreseeable future, and 40% hope the country will overcome hardships in the next 10-15 years, sociologists say.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 - The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has provided the Treasury Department with a list of about 210 Russians deemed close enough to Russian President Vladimir Putin to be targets for new sanctions, Los Angeles Times reported.

KIEV, Jan. 30 – Ukraine's State Financial Monitoring Service (Derzhfinmonitoring) from March 2014 through December 2016 blocked UAH 28.54 million in assets belonging to officials of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DNR, LNR), according to the Ukrainian government's website.