MINSK, Feb. 11 - The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine held peace talks in Belarus deep into the night, while in Ukraine pro-Moscow separatists tightened the pressure on Kiev by launching some of the war's worst fighting, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 9 – The Presidential Administration has noted that Vinnytsia, Khmelnytsky and Kirovohrad regions show the best results from mobilization, while Kharkiv, Sumy, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions had the worst results.

KIEV, Feb. 9 – The Cabinet of Ministers will introduce a special border regime for a number of districts and populated areas of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, as well as two districts in Kherson region which border Crimea, starting February 10 for the duration of the “anti-terrorist operation."

This is stated in government decree No. 38 on certain means of improving Ukraine's national security, dated January 30.

KIEV, Feb. 11 - The Ukrainian president's advisor, Maryna Stavniychuk, said there is no legal reasons at the moment allowing the president to dissolve Parliament.

She responded to growing speculations that President Viktor Yanukovych had been considering dissolving Parliament to prevent the emergence of a coalition in Parliament opposing his rule.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 11 - EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton suggested Ukraine may get even closer level of integration with the EU after signing the association agreement.

KIEV, Feb. 11 - Opponents of President Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine's deadlocked Parliament are set to begin work on a bill on constitutional changes to dilute presidential powers.

KIEV, Feb. 11 - The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a resolution expressing support for "democratic and European aspirations" in Ukraine and calling on authorities to respect democratic rights and free protest detainees.

KIEV, Feb. 8 - Unconventional gas production, like other industrial activities, contains environmental risks, but Ukraine will be able to minimize them, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, Feb. 8 – The Consultative Committee of the presidents of Poland and Ukraine has almost completed the harmonization of a draft strategic partnership program between the countries for 2013-2015 at its 23rd meeting.

KIEV, Feb. 11 - Ukrainian oil and gas monopoly Naftogaz Ukrayiny says it will not pay a bill for $7 billion Gazprom presented in January for taking less gas than agreed under the gas supply contract between the two concerns, according to the prospectus for an issue of Ukrainian eurobonds.