KIEV, May 10 – National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva, having earlier announced her resignation, appointed as of May 11 her first deputy Yakiv Smoliy as acting head of the central bank.

KIEV, May 10 - A former agent of the Ukrainian security service SBU appears to have been engaged in overnight surveillance of a street when a car bomb was planted to kill a prominent journalist in July 2016.

KIEV, May 10 – The situation in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine has deteriorated since the Easter holidays, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said.

KIEV, May 10 – Work on a “Panama Papers“ bill establishing a special interim investigative committees for the investigation of offshore scandals, including with the involvement of President Petro Poroshenko, are underway in Parliament.

KIEV, May 10 – Ukrainian military servicewoman Nadia Savchenko, who is currently in jail in Rostov region after being sentenced to 22 years of imprisonment in Russia, has paid a 30,000-ruble fine imposed by the Russian court for a border-crossing that the court said was illegal, her mother Maria Savchenko said.

KIEV, May 7 – Professional cameras, video cameras and other similar devices, fireworks, flares, laser pointers, large bags, and large banners cannot be brought into the stadiums that will host the Euro 2012 European Football Championship.

KIEV, May 7 – It is strictly forbidden for persons who attend the matches of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship to throw any objects or liquids in the direction of another person, in the direction of the area around the pitch or the pitch itself, start a fire, let off or launch fireworks, flares, or other pyrotechnics, or express or disseminate political, religious, racist, xenophobic propaganda and pursuits or slogans and emblems.

KIEV, May 7 – The Prosecutor General's Office has opened yet another criminal case against former members of the Yulia Tymoshenko government, indicting five for fraud and seizing some UAH29 million of their property.

KIEV, May 7 – The Ukrainian government does not plan to implement the instructions of the International Monetary Fund on the increase of housing utility tariffs for households “blindly” so that the country might obtain a next tranche from the fund, Social Policy Minister Serhiy Tyhypko has said.

KIEV, May 10 – Hundreds thousands of Ukrainian homes may be switched off Eurosport television channels just ahead of the Euro-2012 soccer tournament and 2012 London Olympics amid a legal dispute with a Ukrainian cable operator.