BRUSSELS, April 7 – Russian, Ukrainian and EU representatives will hold a meeting on gas in Berlin on April 14, European Commission spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa Itkonen said at a briefing in Brussels on Tuesday.

KIEV, April 7 – The budget financing of the occupied areas in Donbas will be resumed after the Ukrainian authorities regain full control there, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov said.

BRUSSELS, April 8 - The European Union, in the present circumstances, sees as its major tasks in helping Ukraine and showing the Russian leadership that their actions are unacceptable, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said in an interview with the Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper published on Monday.

WASHINGTON, April 8 - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have discussed the possibility of holding direct talks between the United States, Russia, the EU and Ukraine to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in Ukraine, U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Monday.

MOSCOW, April 8 - Russian natural gas producer Gazprom said on Tuesday Ukraine had failed to pay for its March gas supplies on time but did not say whether the company would take any action against Kiev.

BRUSSELS, April 8 - Ukraine's energy minister, EU officials and industry representatives held talks on Tuesday on cutting reliance on Russian gas as tension with Moscow drove home the urgency of finding alternative energy sources and supply routes, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, April 8 - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russian agents and special forces on Tuesday of stirring separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine, saying Moscow could be trying to prepare for military action as it had in Crimea, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 5 - Ukraine hopes to obtain the status of an observer in the Customs Union and then start the consideration of a number of documents for participation in the union's work, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, April 8 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed the law facilitating a visa agreement with the European Union.

The document provides for increasing to nine the list of categories of Ukrainians that are not charged fees for processing of visa applications.

KIEV, April 8 – Yuriy Lutsenko, a high-profile political prisoner pardoned by President Viktor Yanukovych Sunday, said Monday it will take millions of people on the streets to make sure there is a peaceful transition of power after the next presidential election.