KIEV, Nov. 11 – Ukraine hopes that the European Commission will provide technical assistance in the process of the demarcation of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border as a part of the Eastern Partnership program, Leonid Osavoliuk, Ukraine's envoy for formalization of the state border, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 12 – Ukraine is likely to end 2013 with a consolidated balance of payment surplus, especially if a new Stand-By Arrangement with the International Monetary Fund is started, said Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank of Ukraine governor.

KIEV, Nov. 12 - Ukraine's jailed former premier, Yulia Tymoshenko, has accused President Viktor Yanukovych of killing the country's hopes to sign a landmark integration agreement with the European Union by going after her lawyer.

KIEV, Nov. 12 - Ukraine is unlikely to resume Russian gas imports suspended in a pricing row before the end of the year, but has enough in storage and can sustain deliveries to Europe, Reuters reported, citing the Kommersant daily.

KIEV, Nov. 13 - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, in a direct conversation with President Viktor Yanukovych over the phone on Tuesday, said he was concerned with Ukraine’s recent parliamentary elections.

KIEV, Nov. 13 – Ukraine’s currency, the hryvnia, fell to its lowest level in three years against the U.S. dollar Tuesday amid a widening trade deficit and speculation the authorities may be preparing a major devaluation.

KIEV, Nov. 10 – Ukraine plans to implement a project called Selena in 2017 involving the launch of a small scientific satellite to fly around the Moon, adviser to the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) Eduard Kuznetsov told reporters during a meeting of the press club at the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 12 – European leaders will make perhaps their final attempt Tuesday to persuade President Viktor Yanukovych to release opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko to save important trade and political deals scheduled for next month.

KIEV, Nov. 13 - President Viktor Yushchenko left for Azerbaijan for a two-day visit to take part in an energy security summit in Baku on Friday, the presidential press service reported Thursday.

TALLINN, Nov. 12 - NATO, meeting on Russia's doorstep, held talks with Ukraine to assess its progress toward membership of the alliance, but prospects for a promised entry action plan were dim, Reuters reported.