KIEV, March 11 – Trilateral negotiations on a summer package of gas supplies are scheduled for March 20, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

"We are planned to have trilateral negotiations on natural gas supplies to Ukraine on March 20," Yatseniuk said at a government meeting on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, March 11 – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that Russia was still arming and training rebel forces in eastern Ukraine and he called for the warring parties to help foreign monitors reinforce a ceasefire, Reuters reported.

LONDON, March 11 - Ukraine, seeking to plug a $15 billion-plus funding gap via debt restructuring, may find that a multi-year payment moratorium does the trick, with investors possibly having to swallow a smaller eventual writedown than feared, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, March 11 - The International Monetary Fund has agreed to pump $10 billion into Ukraine's troubled economy over the next year, providing swift assistance for the country's struggling finances as part of a larger four-year bailout.

WASHINGTON, March 11 - The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Tuesday he would introduce a bill to address the crisis in Ukraine, including $150 million in aid and sanctions against Ukrainians and Russians responsible for violence and human rights violations in Ukraine.

BRUSSELS, March 11 - The European Commission agreed on Tuesday to give nearly 500 million euros ($685 million) worth of trade benefits to Ukraine, which had been teetering towards default even before pro-Western unrest in Kiev revived Cold War tensions, Reuters reported.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 11 - Ousted leader Viktor Yanukovych insisted on Tuesday that he remained Ukraine's legitimate president and commander-in-chief, saying he would return to Kiev and appealing to the armed forces to defy any "criminal orders" handed down by his foes, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 11 - Ukraine's interim leaders established a new National Guard on Tuesday and appealed to the United States and Britain for assistance under a post-Cold War treaty against what they called Russian aggression in Crimea.

KIEV, March 11 - A Ukrainian journalist held for several months by kidnappers in Syria is safe in Damascus after fleeing from her captors on Monday, her family said.

KIEV, March 7 – The Ukrainian government is considering cutting the price of 200,000 tons of fuel and 250,000 tons of ammonium nitrate for farmers for the spring sowing campaign, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said.