KIEV, Aug. 13 – Ukraine must accumulate 17 billion cubic meters of natural gas in underground gas storage facilities by November 1 for stable operation during the winter, the government’s press service reported Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 13 - Ukraine's crunch talks with its biggest creditors moved into a second day Thursday as both sides sought a workable solution for keeping the former Soviet country from hurtling into default.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – Ukraine said Wednesday there was a growing risk of disruption of Russian gas supplies to Europe and called for a meeting with European and Russian officials to resolve the looming problem.

KIEV, Aug. 13 - Ukraine described Russia's dispatch of an aid convoy advancing now towards its border as a cynical act designed to fan a pro-Russian rebellion, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, Aug. 12 - Norway will join the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia on July 31, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry reported.

KIEV, Aug. 12 – Officials at Kiev Armor Repair Plant appropriated a T-72 tank owned by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and tried to sell seven more of such tanks, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said.

KIEV, Aug. 13 - The Bishops Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has elected Metropolitan Onufriy of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna as the new head of the church.

KIEV, Aug. 12 - Ukraine's State Border Service is involved in the search for former of the National University of the State Tax Service Rector Petro Melnyk, who escaped house arrest.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – One million people will take to the streets across Ukraine in October in a march against President Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of a recent protest march against police brutality said Tuesday.

KIEV, August 10 – The current election campaign will cost more than the parliamentary elections in 2007, Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) Chairman Oleksandr Chernenko said.

"If we summarize the costs of parties and candidates for majority constituencies, of course, the sum will be bigger than in 2007," Chernenko told a press conference on Friday.