Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (parliament) should adopt constitutional amendments in the next few weeks, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in his speech in Mariupol, the government-controlled area of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on Thursday.

Kiev’s decision to deploy S-300 air defense systems in the Odessa Region puts Russian aircraft, flying in and out of Transnistria, in danger of getting shot down. This, in turn, increases the chances of a military confrontation between Russia and the West, US global intelligence company Stratfor predicted.

Ukraine and Moldova are waging a hybrid war against Transnistria, Foreign Minister Nina Shtanski told St. Petersburg’s Channel 5 in an interview.

Ukraine’s debt is one trillion hryvnias and has reached 100 percent of GDP, Yury Boiko, leader of the Opposition Bloc faction in the Ukrainian Parliament, said.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is ready to continue providing financial aid to Kiev even if Ukraine’s government does not reach an agreement with private creditors in the near future, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said in her Friday statement.

The attackers threw eggs and tomatoes into the building. The equipment was damaged, Ukraine’s Consular General Vitaliy Moskalenko told

Kiev is using the military conflict in Donbass to distract public attention from actual corruption and economic problems, an author for the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger wrote.

Ukrainian lawmakers may vote to censor the flow of information coming from the country’s war-torn east.

Kiev expects to reach agreement on gas price with Moscow within next two weeks, Ukrainian Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchishin said Saturday.

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission's chief urged the warring parties in Donbass to stop shelling "comprehensively and completely."