KIEV, Jan. 10 - Two Ukrainian soldiers and two rebels have been killed in eastern Ukraine, marking the first deaths this year in the war-torn region, Kiev and breakaway officials said Sunday in separate tolls, AFP reported.

KIEV, Jan. 10 – The Ukrainian government is deciding whether to initiate talks with the World Trade Organization on increasing rates of duty on goods imported to Ukraine from a list formed according to proposals from Ukrainian business, Government Commissioner for Ukraine's European Integration Valeriy Piatnytsky said.

KIEV, Jan. 11 - Ukraine cut imports of Russian natural gas by half in January amid signs talks with Russia over lower gas prices have stalled, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko said Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 11 - Stefan Fuele, the European Union’s enlargement commissioner, warned Ukraine’s leadership on Tuesday against using criminal law for allegedly politically motivated prosecution of opposition leaders.

KIEV, Jan. 11 – Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych on Monday rejected the idea of live televised debates with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, calling the debates the “championship of lies.”

KIEV, Jan. 11 – Ukraine’s opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych is a “lesser evil” compared with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko ahead of the next presidential election this month, the Financial Times wrote in an editorial on Monday.

KIEV, Jan. 11 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko seeks to schedule an emergency session of Parliament on Wednesday to try to amend election legislation to prevent possible fraud, but even her allies are skeptical.

VILNUS, Jan. 8 - Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius blamed Russia for the "gas war" between Russia and Ukraine and for suspension of gas supplies to some European states.

KIEV, Jan. 8 – Ukrainian chemical enterprises cut gas consumption by 50% for two days to balance the work of their country’s gas transmission system, Volodymyr Trikolich, the deputy chairman of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said at a briefing on Thursday.

KIEV, Jan. 9 - Ukraine has used some of its own natural gas to ensure steady transit of gas from Russia to the European Union over the past week, Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national gas company, said Wednesday.