KIEV, May 8 - CBM Oil plc, a private U.K.-based oil company, is in talks with the Ukrainian government over exploration and production of oil and gas offshore the Black Sea, the Energy and Fuel Ministry reported.

KIEV, May 6 ??“ Ukraine will probably form the new government in June, President Viktor Yushchenko told U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney during their meeting in Vilnius on Thursday.

VILNIUS, May 4 ??“ U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday accused Russia of cracking down on religious and political rights and using its energy reserves as "tools of intimidation or blackmail," The Associated Press reported.

KIEV, May 7 ??“ Ukraine and Georgia began consultations on whether the two countries should quit the Commonwealth of Independent States, a Russia-led alliance of former Soviet Union nations, a Georgian official said Sunday.

KIEV, May 6 ??“ Police in Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic countries have been closing in on the organizer of the Elite Center construction scam that had rocked Kiev earlier this year, Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko said.

KYIV, April 7 - S&P Global Ratings lowered the long-term foreign currency rating on Ukraine to 'CCC' from 'CCC+', the outlook on the foreign-currency rating is negative and that on the local-currency rating is stable, the agency said on its website.

KYIV, April 9 - Weekend shelling by Russian forces killed at least seven civilians, Ukrainian officials reported Sunday as Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby used their traditional Easter messages to highlight the war in Ukraine and other conflicts around the world.

KYIV, April 7 – Thanks to the specialists of the heat supply organizations and the distribution system operator in Kyiv region, since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, about 85% of the damaged electric power infrastructure facilities, as well as almost all boiler houses, have been restored, the State Inspectorate for Energy Supervision of Ukraine said.

KYIV, April 9 – The headquarters of the Russian-backed Orthodox church in Ukraine, which urged worshipers to ignore the government’s quarantine orders, was hit by a massive outbreak of coronavirus, the authorities reported Thursday.

KYIV, April 8 – The European Commission will issue more than EUR190 million to Ukraine to combat the spread of the coronavirus infection, according to a press release on the EU's response to the coronavirus pandemic in the Eastern Partnership countries, posted on the European Commission's website.