KIEV, Dec. 10 – Ukraine considers India as one of the most important partners in South Asia, President Viktor Yanukovych has said during a meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid in New Delhi on Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – The U.S. cancelled its entry visa for Renat Kuzmin, Ukraine’s first deputy prosecutor general, who is believed to be an architect of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko’s seven-year imprisonment.

KIEV, Dec. 8 – Ukraine considers Russia one of its most effective partners in the nuclear energy sphere, although the country does not see grounds for stopping talks and cooperation with U.S. and French companies, Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia newspaper.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – The president's veto of the law on opposing money laundering is leading Ukraine to the blacklist of the FATF (the Financial Action Task Force), according to a statement by Ihor Cherkasky, the head of the State Committee for Financial Monitoring of Ukraine, the text of which has been sent to Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 9 - President Viktor Yushchenko has accused Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of corruption and asked the Security Service to start an inquiry into the matter.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – There is a “high probability” of a new natural gas supply crisis between Ukraine and Russia next month that may affect consumers in the European Union, Ukraine’s top security body said in a report Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in a secret letter to the International Monetary Fund, promised to take unpopular measures, including increasing Ukraine’s retirement age, seeking to unlock its $16.4 billion Standby loan from the organization, an opposition lawmaker said Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 8 – President Viktor Yushchenko has said he is “confident” that a positive decision on Ukraine's accession to the Energy Community Treaty will be taken at a meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Energy Community in Zagreb on December 18.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 – The United States supports Ukraine's further integration into NATO and the European Union, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.

KIEV, Dec. 10 - President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday accused Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of blocking for political reasons alternatives to Russian supplies of natural gas and crude oil to Ukraine.