KIEV, April 28 – Ukraine will probably in June receive its next installment of $1.7 billion from the International Monetary Fund, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said on Thursday.

KIEV, April 27 – Mikulas Dzurinda, president of the Martens Centre and former Slovak Prime Minister, said that he accepted an offer made by President Petro Poroshenko to become his advisor.

WASHINGTON, April 28 – More Russian air defense systems have been deployed in eastern Ukraine, reaching the highest number recorded since August 2014, the U.S. Department of State said.

KIEV, April 28 - Emergency services were battling on Tuesday to prevent Ukraine's largest forest fire since 1992 from spreading towards the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 28 - Ukraine's leader warned on Tuesday that a war with pro-Russian separatists could still break out again, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, April 25 - EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule has reiterated the EU's commitment to sign the remaining chapters of the Association Agreement with Ukraine and confirmed that the implementation of the agreement is not a final goal in bilateral relations between Kiev and Brussels.

KIEV, April 28 - Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the seizure of a group of international military inspectors of the OSCE by gunmen in Sloviansk (Donetsk region).

KIEV, April 28 – Ukraine began legal procedures to try to force Russian natural gas company to cancel its recent more than 80% hike in gas prices, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said Monday.

KIEV, April 28 - Ukraine has lost at least $80 billion since Russia annexed its southern Crimea region and the price tag will be much higher when Kiev includes lost profits and the value of possible energy reserves in the Black Sea, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 28 - The high-profile mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, was badly wounded by a gunman, raising fears of further unrest in a Russian-speaking region that has seen less trouble of late than the neighboring provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk.