KIEV, July 28 - Software for hacker attacks on Ukrainian companies was designed in Russia and attacks were planned for at least six months, National Security and Defense Council spokesman Valentyn Petrov said.

KIEV, July 27 – Ukraine does not receive enough financial aid from Western countries, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

"We are grateful for the existing level of support but it is necessary to admit that we are awfully underfinanced," Yatseniuk said during a board meeting of the Finance Ministry in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, July 28 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has ordered the State Fiscal Service to prepare a tender to select a foreign company that would manage several Ukrainian customs agencies.

KIEV, July 28 - The OSCE's special mission to Ukraine on Tuesday made a fresh appeal to all sides in the military conflict in Ukraine's east to guarantee safe conditions for its monitors after one of its officers was wounded during an exchange of fire.

KIEV, July 27 – The European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) has positively pre-assessed a text of the improved document of the Constitution of Ukraine regarding the judiciary of Ukraine.

DONETSK, July 27 – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is set to continue to provide assistance for the reconstruction of health care institutions demolished during the conflict in the Donetsk region, said Sanela Bajrambasic, an ICRC representative in Donetsk.

KIEV, July 27 - On July 24 the Ukrainian government made a $120 million interest payment on the sovereign's 2012 eurobonds, however a credit-negative debt payment moratorium remains an imminent risk, said Moody's Investors Service.

KIEV, July 24 - The protracted hostilities have used up the financial resources set aside to conduct the antiterrorist operation (ATO), undermining salary payouts to the Ukrainian military as early as August 1, Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak said on Thursday.

KIEV, July 24 – President Petro Poroshenko says he believes that Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers led by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk should continue work.

KIEV, July 25 - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, at a meeting with representatives of the European People's Party, stressed the importance of declaring the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) and Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) as terrorist organizations, the press service of the head of state has reported.