KIEV, Dec. 9 – Five people were killed when a small chartered plane had crashed near Kiev on Sunday after tumbling from the sky and catching fire, the Emergency Situations Ministry reported.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – A number of crucial bills that President Viktor Yushchenko wanted to be approved before the approval of Yulia Tymoshenko as the next prime minister, will most likely be delayed, a lawmaker said Sunday.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – Yulia Tymoshenko will probably be approved as Ukraine’s next prime minister on Tuesday, Parliamentary Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk said Sunday. If the vote fails, he said, this would mean the collapse of the pro-Western coalition.

KIEV, Dec. 6 - The shareholders of Sarmatia, the company set up to build an extension of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Poland, will make their financial contributions by Dec. 24, Polish President Lech Kaczynski said Thursday.

KIEV, Dec. 6 – Ukrainian and Polish presidents Viktor Yushchenko and Lech Kaczynski have said their countries will do everything to ensure the finals of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship are a success.

KIEV, Dec. 7 – Ukraine created Sintez-gaz Ukrayiny concern, a company that will produce synthetic gas that may be used to replace the consumption of expensive natural gas, the Economy Ministry reported Thursday.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 8 ??“ U.S. and European Union leaders on Wednesday welcomed the political compromise reached between Ukraine??™s opposition and its outgoing president, Leonid Kuchma.

KIEV, Dec. 8 ??“ Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, on a three-week leave running presidential election campaign, continued to lose power Wednesday as several of his key allies lost their jobs.

KIEV, Dec. 8 ??“ Parliament Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to support a set of laws and constitutional amendments that open way for ending the severe political crisis that has been keeping the country in turmoil for three weeks.

KIEV, Dec. 9 ??“ Outgoing President Leonid Kuchma has not received any immunity deal from opposition leaders as part of a compromise that had ended political crisis Wednesday, an opposition lawmaker said Thursday.