KIEV, Sept. 8 - Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk will travel to Bratislava on Thursday for a meeting with Slovakian leaders to increase cooperation in the energy sector, the government’s press service said Tuesday.

THE HAGUE, Sept. 8 - Ukraine on Tuesday accepted the International Criminal Court's jurisdiction to probe war crimes committed since February 2014, including in its war-torn east where thousands have been killed, AFP reported.

KIEV, Sept. 5 – The border with Russia will be equipped with engineering structures in two stages, and the first stage involves the construction of a wall on the border in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions, and part of Luhansk region, Deputy Chief of State Border Guard Service Pavlo Shysholin said at a presentation of the Wall project.

KIEV, Sept. 8 – The Amnesty International non-governmental human rights organization has revealed satellite images indicating a build-up of Russian armor and artillery in eastern Ukraine and accused Russia of fuelling separatist crimes.

KIEV, Sept. 8 - President Petro Poroshenko on Monday signed into law a bill that allows U.S. and European companies to modernize and to manage the country’s vast natural gas pipeline and gas storage infrastructure, according to Parliament’s website.

KIEV, Sept. 8 - Ukraine should decentralize power, hold early elections in Donetsk and Luhansk regions and adopt a law prohibiting prosecution of individuals in relation to the events that took place the two regions, a protocol on the results of consultations of the trilateral contact group in Minsk says.

KIEV, Sept. 8 - President Petro Poroshenko visited the eastern port of Mariupol on Monday and promised to deal a "crushing defeat" to pro-Russian rebels massed on the edge of town if they tried to advance in violation of a ceasefire agreement, wire services reported.

KIEV, Sept. 5 – Ukraine's energy policy is aimed at the diversification of gas supplies, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

During a meeting with candidates for positions of heads of district state administrations, he noted that Ukraine has started to buy gas on the European market, where it is much cheaper than in Russia.

KIEV, Sept. 6 – Parliament has supported at first reading a draft law on the stimulation of the attraction of investment to Ukraine.

Some 323 out of 349 lawmakers registered in the session hall on Thursday supported the law at first reading.

KIEV, Sept. 8 – Ukraine will resolve the legal issue of releasing jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for treatment in Germany no later than October, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Rybak said.