KIEV, Aug. 11 – The deputies of the interior minister and the prosecutor general of Ukraine have become the co-chairs of the interdepartmental commission on the issue of returning to state ownership of funds and assets derived from corruption.

DONETSK, Aug. 11 - Residents of Donetsk could hear artillery fire all across the city during the day, eyewitnesses said.

KIEV, Aug. 11 - U.S. President Barack Obama has supported Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's initiative to organize an international humanitarian mission for Luhansk under the aegis of the International Committee of the Red Cross and with the participation of the European Union, Russia, Germany and other partners, the Ukrainian president's press service reported.

KIEV, Aug. 11 - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday Russia is sending an aid convoy to eastern Ukraine despite urgent Western warnings against using humanitarian help as a pretext for an invasion, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Aug. 8 – Ukraine expects that the Stockholm Arbitration Institute will cancel the "take-or-pay" condition in the contract on the purchase of natural gas signed between national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny and OJSC Gazprom, Naftogaz Chairman Andriy Kobolev said.

KIEV, Aug. 11 - In the event of sanctions introduced against Russian companies on natural gas transit to Europe, this work can be done by companies which were not affected by this restriction, Naftogaz Ukrayiny said in a statement issued on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 8 - Almost 57% of Ukrainians believe that flawed state policy and corruption in government agencies hamper the creation of an effective and fair social security system in Ukraine, according to a survey conducted by the Social Monitoring Center and the Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute for Social Research along with the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 10 – A political ally of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov fled his home on Friday in a bizarre case after police had apparently wanted to take him into custody following bribery allegations.

KIEV, Aug. 11 – President Viktor Yanukopvych and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev, after their meeting in Sochi, provided no signs of breakthrough in talks over natural gas prices, an issue that may undermine Ukraine’s economic stability.

KIEV, Aug. 11 – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, following a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych in Sochi on Thursday, made no public comments over the arrest of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.