KIEV, Jan. 6 – No evidence has been uncovered to support a reported assassination attempt against former President Viktor Yanukovych, reports Valeriy Heletey, head of Ukraine's State Protection Department.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 6 – The European Commission has no news to report on holding the trilateral gas talks between the European Union, Ukraine and Russia, said Jakub Adamowicz, spokesperson for Specific Energy Union Projects has said.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - Haley Barbour, former Republican Party leader and Mississippi governor, has been hired by the Ukrainian government to lobby U.S. politicians, according to documents filed this week, Reuters reported.

BERLIN, Jan. 9 - Russian hackers have targeted international peace monitors in Ukraine, according to German intelligence, as the Kremlin dismisses claims that it tried to influence the US election as a "witch hunt,” The Telegraph reported.

KIEV. Dec 31 – The activists of the so-called 'civil blockade' of Crimea are removing all checkpoints on the border between Ukraine and the peninsula, says Lenur Islyamov, one of the organizers of Crimea's trade and power blockade that was started some time ago by a number of Ukrainian civil activists.

KIEV, Jan. 4 – Dutch prosecutors have said they will "seriously study" claims by citizen journalists to have identified Russian soldiers implicated in the crash of flight MH17, shot down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, The Guardian wrote on January 4.

MOSCOW, Jan. 4 - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed an ordinance on the size of an export duty on gas supplies to Ukraine for the first quarter of 2016.

MOSCOW, Jan. 4 - Ukraine has defaulted on its eurobond debt to Russia, the Russian finance ministry confirmed.

KIEV, Jan. 5 - A power failure that plunged parts of western Ukraine into the dark last month was caused by a cyber attack, IT experts said Tuesday, and one source called it a world first, AFP reported.

KIEV, Jan. 8 – The fire that broke out at PJSC Hartron plant in Kharkiv on Wednesday has not affected the production process of the enterprise, the State Space Agency of Ukraine said.