KIEV, Dec. 13 - A European Union envoy, on a mission to Ukraine to save the December 19 summit from failure, said on Tuesday he had voiced serious concern again to President Viktor Yanukovych over the jailing of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Dec. 12 – The exclusion zone near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant should be as open and accessible to the public as possible, Emergencies Minister Viktor Baloha said.

"I must admit that the established mechanism of travel to the Chernobyl zone is not quite what I had imagined. At the same time, we can say that it is tightly closed.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – President Viktor Yanukovych has issued a decree under which the Defense Ministry is to create a new wording of Ukraine's military doctrine.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – A prominent investigative journalist was detained by police without apparent cause late Monday in Ukraine, a country whose government has been repeatedly accused of attempting to restrict the freedom of speech.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – President Viktor Yanukovych has cancelled a presidential order issued by former President Viktor Yushchenko, who banned the privatization of a number of strategically important companies.

MOSCOW, Dec. 10 - Ukraine has started revising its cooperation with the CIS to see whether it could be more involved in its various programs, said President Viktor Yanukovych.

KIEV, Dec. 11 – Somali pirates have freed 24 Ukrainian sailors from the Ariana, President Viktor Yushchenko said.

"The Ukrainian sailors have been freed. I congratulate our 24 guys and their families on their victory," he told reporters in Kiev.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Sunday disputed a Friday story in the New York Times suggesting the International Monetary Fund has decided to postpone a $3.5 billion loan installment to Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – Influential members of Our Ukraine-People’s Self-defense are growing unhappy about the party’s likely nominations to the government, potentially putting the members on course against its leader, President Viktor Yushchenko.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – The confidence in a computer vote counting system in Parliament was shattered again on Thursday after one of its 450 terminals collapsed and had to be replaced, Parliamentary Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk said.