BRUSSELS, May 12 – The EU foreign ministers will consider the issue of expanding criteria for the second phase of sanctions against those who are involved in the confiscation of Ukrainian property in Crimea, a high-ranking European diplomat said on the eve of a meeting.

KIEV, May 13 – Ukraine is able to become energy independent in two years, according to presidential candidate MP Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, May 13 - Ukraine's acting president and parliament speaker, Oleksandr Turchynov, and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy have discussed the country's upcoming presidential elections, set for May 25.

WASHINGTON, May 13 - The U.S. government released new satellite pictures on Tuesday which it said showed Russian forces were still near the Ukrainian border in recent days, contradicting Russian assertions they had been withdrawn, Reuters reported.

President Vladimir Putin announced last Wednesday that the troops had moved, but NATO and the United States both said they had seen no sign of a Russian withdrawal from the frontier.

KIEV, May 13 - Pro-Russian separatists ambushed Ukrainian troops on Tuesday, killing seven in the heaviest loss of life for government forces in a single clash since Kiev sent soldiers to put down a rebellion in the country's east, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 8 – The TVi television channel has to become a channel of full value, and not exclusively political, according to television producer Mykhailo Krupiyevsky, who has decided to return to the position of TVi's deputy development director.

KIEV, May 13 - The volume of planned government borrowings stipulated in the government medium-term strategy of state debt management for 2013-2015 is not critical for Ukraine's GDP, however its level is to be constantly controlled and we should achieve its reduction, deputy chairman of the Regions Party faction Anatoliy Kinakh says.

KIEV, May 13 - Ukraine may sell a controlling stake in its natural gas pipelines at a privatization auction if legislation is approved by Parliament, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Monday.

KIEV, May 13 - Three weeks after it was suspended, Ukrainian prosecutors have reopened an investigation into a 1996 murder they allege involves jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, May 11 - President Viktor Yanukovych will meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in Moscow at a summit of Commonwealth of Independent States leaders, Yanukovych’s press service reported Friday.