KIEV, Oct. 13 ??“ Ukraine??™s economic growth accelerated in September after a disappointing contraction in August, apparently boosted by recovering steel prices on world markets, the State Statistics Committee said Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 13 - The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday to cancel last year??™s presidential decree that had transferred minority state-owned stakes in two oil refineries to Naftogaz Ukrayny, the state oil and gas company.

ASHGABAT, Oct 13 - Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov on Thursday postponed indefinitely signing a 25-year natural gas agreement with Ukraine, saying the deal must also be approved by Russia.

KIEV, Oct. 13 ??“ As of early October over 23.18 million people in Ukraine, or nearly 50% of the country's population, used mobile communication services.

ORLANDO, Oct. 13 - A former Ukrainian governor accused of extortion and abuse of power in the country's tumultuous 2004 election was arrested in Florida on an immigration violation, ABC Action News reported.

KYIV, Sept 12 – Ukraine expects to receive the first state-of-the-art German Iris air defense system in autumn 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.

KYIV, Sept 12 – Ukraine expects the second tranche of EU macro-financial assistance (MFA) of EUR 5 billion as a loan by the end of September and the last tranche of EUR 3 billion as a grant in October, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said.

KHARKIV, Sept 12 - Ukrainian troops expanded their territorial gains Monday, pushing all the way to the country’s northeastern border in places, and claimed to have captured a record number of Russian soldiers as part of the lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat.

KYIV, Sept 12 – European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson, at an extraordinary meeting of the EU Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council last Friday, urged participants to ask ENTSO-E to accelerate the increase in electricity trade with Ukraine, according to a report on the website of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine.

KYIV, Sept 13 – President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the co-chairs of the International Working Group on Security Guarantees for Ukraine – Head of the President's Office Andriy Yermak and former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who presented to the head of state with the recommendations on future security guarantees for Ukraine developed by the group, which should become the basis of a document called the Kyiv Security Compact.