WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 - A joint series of exercises between Ukraine and the U.S. has ended and guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) has left the Black Sea, U.S. 6th Fleet announced on Monday.

YAVORIV, Sept. 14 - A Ukrainian military band, accompanied by twirling dancers in traditional dress, welcomed 200 Royal Canadian Regiment soldiers participating in Operation Unifier, the Canadian military’s mission to help train Ukrainian army units for war against the Russian-backed separatists who control swaths of eastern Ukraine, The Globe and Mail reported.

KIEV, Sept. 11 – The objections of some of holders of Ukraine's bonds due in September and October 2016 to restructuring conditions will not disrupt the whole debt transaction, Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said.

KIEV, Sept. 11 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. President Barack Obama will meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – The European Union is ready to provide EUR 90 million for decentralization projects in Ukraine, EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy Johannes Hahn said at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Minister Hennadiy Zubko.

KIEV, Sept. 14 - The government plans to increase state subsidies to offset a major increase in Russian natural gas prices in 2012, First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev said Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – Ukraine may be forced to dismantle its natural gas pipelines shipping Russian gas to markets in the European Union if Russia keeps building bypassing pipelines, an official said Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 12 – Parliament has adopted a law making the counterfeiting of medicine and trafficking of fake medicine a crime.

Two hundred and fifty-seven MPs of the 356 registered in Parliament voted to approve the bill.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – The Batkivschyna Party has accused Prime Minister Mykola Azarov of resorting to "a cynical lie" while commenting on the gas case against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in an interview with France's Le Figaro newspaper.

KIEV, Sept. 13 – The unification of the Russian gas giant Gazprom and Ukraine's national gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny into a joint venture may cause Russia to change its position on the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline, Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma, President of the Russian Gas Society Valery Yazev has said.