KYIV, Sept 10 – President Petro Poroshenko said by the end of this year authorities will make a decision to increase the minimum wage to almost UAH 4,200.

KYIV, Sept. 10 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman on Monday vowed to acceleration battle against corruption and pointed to the fact that the government had started to collect more money after improving transparency at customs services.

KIEV, Sept. 11 – The government is lagging behind schedule in drafting the 2014 budget despite its formal approval on Wednesday, a newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the issue.

KIEV, Sept. 11 - Kiev Regional State Administration has leased 30,400 hectares of the Dnipro-Teteriv forest for 49 years to the Kedr Society of Hunters and Fishermen, which is associated with President Viktor Yanukovych, the Forbes.ua online newspaper wrote on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 11 – Ukraine has proposed to the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan that instead of setting quotas for duty-free supplies of Ukrainian pipes every six months, they should be agreed for three years in advance, Economic Development and Trade Ministry Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Sept. 11 - Ukraine will build five plants that will convert domestically extracted coal into gas to help the country cut dependence on Russian natural gas imports, President Viktor Yanukovych said Tuesday.

At a meeting with government officials and corporate executives in Dnipropetrovsk, Yanukovych said the overall cost of the project is $3.5 billion, and it is due to start later this year.

KIEV, Sept. 11 - A Ukrainian court on Tuesday adjourned the tax evasion and embezzlement trial of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko until Oct. 15, citing her inability to attend the trial due to poor health.

KIEV, Sept. 9 - Ukraine will abide by the "fettering" gas agreements, it signed with Russia in early 2009, even though it is seeking their revision, government spokesman Vitaliy Lukyanenko told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – Kiev’s Pechersky District Court has completed the judicial inquiry into the gas case against ex-Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko and may soon render a verdict.

KIEV, Sept. 10 — President Viktor Yanukovych on Friday signed into law legislation increasing the retirement age in Ukraine, a key demand of the International Monetary Fund.