KIEV, Nov. 6 - Russia’s plans to build Nord Stream-2 pipeline moving its natural gas to Germany would hurt the European Union’s energy independence, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said Friday.

KIEV, Nov. 6 - International monitors in eastern Ukraine have reported a sharp increase in gunfire along front lines near the airport of the rebel-held city of Donetsk, Reuters reported citing a senior official with Europe's main security and rights watchdog.

KIEV, Nov. 8 – Ukraine’s opposition parties suffered a setback Thursday when a court upheld a recent controversial decision by a local election commission rejecting 30,000 ballots to award victory to a pro-government candidate.

KIEV, Nov. 8 – The law on industrial parks will allow $8 billion in investment in the Ukrainian economy to be raised in three or four years and will create over 300,000 jobs, according to Natalia Korolevska, head of the parliamentary committee for industrial and regulatory policy.

KIEV, Nov. 8 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny borrowed $550 million from the banking arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom to pay for October gas supplies, a news website reported on Tuesday, citing a government source.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 8 - Ukrainian negotiators said there is no need to initial an EU trade and association pact at a summit in Kiev in December as previously planned.

KIEV, Nov. 5 – President Viktor Yanukovych has met with Microsoft Corporation CEO Steve Ballmer, the presidential press service has reported.

Welcoming his guest to Kiev, Yanukovych thanked him for promoting relations between Microsoft and Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 5 – The growth of industrial production in Ukraine 2010 totaled over 11.5% in October, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at a meeting with representatives of a mission from the European Department of the International Monetary Fund (in Kiev on Friday.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 5 – Head of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee Pawel Kowal said the European Parliament may again put off a vote on a resolution on Ukraine, which had earlier been postponed until November 10-11.

VIENNA, Nov. 8 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has proposed that Austrian Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann consider the possibility of investing in the modernization of the Ukrainian gas transport system as an alternative to the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline.