KIEV, June 10 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Wednesday the International Monetary Fund has agreed to increase lending to Ukraine to support the economy later this year.

Tymoshenko said the IMF may provide $3.2 billion in June or July, and $3.8 billion in November.

KIEV, June 10 – Ukraine’s economy, hit by the global financial crisis, may have contracted 25% on the year in the first quarter, worse then had been earlier expected, President Viktor Yushchenko said Wednesday.

KIEV, June 10 – President Viktor Yushchenko supports the financing of social programs in 2009 using additional inflation revenues of the national budget, which would appear due to the underestimated government forecast for consumer price growth.

KIEV, June 10 - A 350-year-old cavalry battle has become the latest irritant between Russia and its neighbor Ukraine after Russia's foreign ministry Tuesday accused Kiev of using the clash to foment anti-Russian feeling, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 10 - Rescue teams are still trying to find 13 coal miners that had been trapped after a gas explosion at a coalmine in Ukraine Sunday, but fears are growing the miners may be dead.

KIEV, June 7 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko urged the government to prevent the destabilization of the meat market caused by meat imports via free economic zones and priority development territories.

KIEV, June 10 ??“ Russia and Ukraine will probably sign an action plan in August covering main policy initiatives from energy to defense sectors, over the next two years, President Viktor Yushchenko said Sunday.

KIEV, June 8 ??“ In a surprise move that may cloud the recent early-election deal between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, First Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Shymchuk, Yushchenko??™s loyalist, was dismissed.

KIEV, June 10 - Russian political interference and the lack of transparency around energy supplies coming mainly from Russia threaten Ukraine as it struggles with serious political turmoil, Ukraine??™s top security official told the Financial Times.

KYIV, May 9 - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country’s army is facing “a really difficult situation” in eastern regions where troops are battling to hold at bay an intense Russian push along parts of the front line.