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Disruption of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund threatens Ukraine with bankruptcy. This was stated in an interview with the "Ozzrevatel" magazine, Andrei Reva, Minister of Social Policy of the country, FOCUS reports.

Saakashvili, who is now the leader of Ukraine's opposition Movement of New Forces, said this before the District Court in Kiev on Monday.

About 1,000 police officers guarded the court today, with about 200 Saakashvili supporters gathered outside, who tried but failed to break through a police cordon before the start of proceedings.

The Beta agency is reporting on Monday that Volker told "the international portal Politico" in an interview that his third face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin's adviser Vladislav Surkov "accomplished nothing" and represented "a step back."

Of the three meetings between the envoys, two took place in Serbia's capital, the last earlier this month.

EU leaders pressed Ukraine on Friday to speed up reforms that Europe and the United States hope will bring the country closer to the West but Kiev responded that it needed a promise it could join the bloc, reported Reuters. 

Thousands of Ukrainians gathered in front of the parliament asking for a real fight against corruption and called for the resignation of President Petro Poroshenko.

Police intervened in the protest of anti-government protesters. According to Ukrainian media, four people have been injured.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has admitted the possibility of making changes to language standards in the new education law after talks with European partners, TASS reported.

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated after massive explosions and a blaze at a military ammunition depot in central Ukraine.

Ukranian emergency services said the blasts occurred at a military base near Kalynivka in the Vynnytsya region, 270km (168 miles) west of Kiev.

One person was injured, it said.

Hungary will block in the EU and veto any step that may lead to further progress by Ukraine in the process of European integration under the Eastern Partnership program, reports Mediapool. 

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday in New York said that he was scrapping his planned visit to Ukraine in October after Ukraine's parliament passed a law curbing the right to education in minority languages, including Romanians.

President Rumen Radev will speak at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly. The speech of the Bulgarian head of state will start around 19:00. Novinite.bg reports.