The authorized staff of the International Monetary Fund and Ukraine reached an agreement on a new 14-month program of support for economic policy stand-by (SBA) for $ 3.9 billion, which will replace the program of extended funding (EFF), approved in March 2015 and ending in March 2019 of the year. This is reported on the IMF website..

*** From November 1, 2018 the price of gas for the population in Ukraine will grow by 23.5%. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.. It is noted that from November 1, the gas price for the population will be 8550 hryvnia per thousand cubic meters of gas.

*** Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Andrei Paruby, signed an appeal to the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on the application of sanctions against the TV channels "112 Ukraine" and NewsOne. Further, the document should be considered at a meeting of the National Security Council.

*** Construction of a modern European-level intelligence center began in Ukraine, in which the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov took part in laying the foundation for it.

*** Ukraine ranks 123rd in the world from 140 countries in terms of the personal wealth of citizens. As of mid-2018, this figure was US $ 1,563 per adult resident.. Such data is contained in the annual report of Credit Suisse on welfare in the world - Global Wealth Report..

*** The population of Ukraine decreased to 42.2 million people. Mortality exceeds fertility: per 100 dead - 58 live births.

*** The Prosecutor's Office is working on 4 main versions regarding the causes of the accident of the Su-27 Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter, which crashed on October 16 in Vinnytsia. This was stated by the chief military prosecutor Anatoly Matios: the human factor in the flight, technical malfunction of the aircraft, it is possible to refuel the aircraft with poor-quality fuel or weather conditions that led to the crash.

*** Wide publicity in social networks and media - more than 50 thousand. views of the video, in which representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv are illegal, chasing and fighting are engaged in “street raids” on young people in order to force them to serve in the army, led to the fact that the regional military commissariat began an official check. Speaking of her, the regional military commissioner reported that in 6 months in the Kharkiv region 300 people, “qualitatively selected” by the military registration and enlistment offices, escaped from the Armed Forces of Ukraine..