KIEV, May 12 – Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State addressing announced he will visit Ukraine in June.

LONDON, May 12 - Ukraine still plans to issue new eurobonds under United States guarantees, however the exact date of issue is unknown, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said on the sidelines of an annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

KIEV, May 12 - Ukrainian lawmakers on Thursday appointed a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko with no legal background as general prosecutor, a position seen by the West as crucial for Kiev's plans to tackle entrenched corruption, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 12 – The United Nations will open an office in Ukraine to support Minsk agreements regarding the settling of the situation in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, May 12 - Ukraine is able to withstand any potential natural gas supply crisis due to its efforts to diversify imports over the past year, President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday.

MOSCOW, May 12 - At least 220 Russian soldiers have been killed in east Ukraine, opposition activists said on Tuesday in a report offering what they called "ample evidence" to rebut President Vladimir Putin's denial his troops are fighting there.

KIEV, May 12 - Ukraine and its bondholders appeared at loggerheads on Tuesday over debt restructuring plans after the creditor group repeated objections to any writedown on the principal owed, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 12 – The major part of the population of Donbas does not support separatism and it is waiting for prompter actions by the authorities, expecting the state to take a principled position, and to take concrete steps to protect them, Mykhailo Volynets, chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, said in Kiev last week.

WASHINGTON, May 12 - U.S. government authorities are providing Ukrainian authorities with financial, technical and non-lethal assistance before the presidential elections, U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland reported.

BRUSSELS, May 12 – The European Union on Monday added the names of 13 people and two Crimean firms to a list of those facing asset freezes and travel bans, measures Moscow has mocked as pointless, Reuters reported.

The new names include Russian President Vladimir Putin's first deputy chief of staff, Vyacheslav Volodin, but notably exclude bosses of big Russian companies.