KIEV, June 9 – Ukraine and Japan have agreed to step up cooperation, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said.

KIEV, June 9 – The Ukraine-NATO Inter-Parliamentary Council has condemned the recent escalation of violence by pro-Russian separatists near Maryinka.

This follows from a joint statement of Verkhovna Rada deputy chairman Andriy Parubiy and co-head of Ukraine-NATO Inter-parliamentary Council from NATO Parliamentary Assembly Raynell Andreychuk.

KIEV, June 9 - A massive fire at a Ukrainian fuel depot killed five people on Tuesday, officials said, including three firemen who went missing after the flames triggered a powerful explosion, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 9 - Ukraine said on Monday it had reached a "mutual understanding" with Moscow on parts of a plan proposed by President Petro Poroshenko for ending violence in the east of the country, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 7 - Ukraine's new president Petro Poroshenko said his country would never give up Crimea and would not compromise on its path towards closer ties with Europe, spelling out a defiant message to Russia in his inaugural speech on Saturday, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, June 9 - Trilateral talks bringing together Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission will resume on Tuesday or early on Wednesday after eight hours of negotiations failed to get a deal on Monday, Reuters reported, citing a Commission spokeswoman.

KIEV, June 6 – The situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions has started seriously affecting the revenues of the national budget, and in June the losses could reach UAH 1 billion, or around the half of the average amount of revenues from the two regions, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.

KIEV, June 8 – The U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon has decided to triple the sum of a claim filed by Ukrvaktsyna (Ukrainian Vaccine) against Olden Group, to $59,785,292, a source at Ukrvaktsyna told Interfax-Ukraine.

The source said that the claim was the result of a large-scale audit initiated by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers.

KIEV, June 9 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Thursday ordered the energy ministry to study Gazprom’s European natural gas supply contracts in order to prove that the Russian company has been overcharging Ukraine.

KIEV, June 9 - Ukraine has removed most of its enriched uranium from the country’s territory, meeting its commitment made at a nuclear non-proliferation summit in Washington last year, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.