KIEV, July 28 - Ukraine and the European Union made progress in talks over a loan that would help Naftogaz Ukrayiny to buy enough Russian natural gas to ensure steady gas transit in the winter, a top official said Tuesday.

KIEV, July 28 – The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday approved disbursement of a $3.3 billion installment to Ukraine, easing concerns that the country may default on foreign debts.

KIEV, July 28 - Rainstorms and floods in western Ukraine killed 22 people, including six children, and forced the evacuation of 20,000 others over the past two days, the Emergency Situations Ministry reported Monday.

KIEV, July 28 - Ukraine’s top security body on Monday urged the government of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to make sure Caspian Sea oil shipments to Europe via the country start before the end of 2008.

KIEV, July 28 – Lawmakers on Thursday will hold an emergency session to approve measures that increase spending to repair damage caused on Sunday by the worst flooding in a century, parliamentary Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, July 28 ??“ A Russia-bound plane with Poland??™s defense minister on board was forced to change its route and fly over Ukraine after Belarus banned the plane from crossing its airspace, officials said Thursday.

KIEV, July 28 ??“ Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko may be the target of an assassination plot, at least two western security agencies warned their Ukrainian counterparts, a spokeswoman at SBU, Ukraine??™s security service, said Thursday.

KIEV, July 28 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a law on amendments to some legislative acts regulating operations involving production, export and imports of compact discs, and equipment and ingredients for their production, the presidential press service reported Thursday, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, July 28 ??“ The United States has included Ukraine in its coalition solidarity fund, allocating almost $140 million for the country's development in 2005.

KYIV, June 27 – A possible blowing up of the reactors of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP) by Russian occupiers will not lead to large-scale consequences of contamination of the territory and the population, comparable to the Chornobyl accident, Head of the State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate of Ukraine Oleh Korikov said during the United News national telethon on Tuesday.