KIEV, April 7 – Prices of eurobonds from Ukrainian issuers last week continued growing in the light of positive trends on the international markets and expectations of a positive decision by the International Monetary Fund to issue a second tranche of its stand-by loan to Ukraine, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 8 – Ukraine's gross domestic product will fall by 9% in 2009, with inflation being 16.4%, World Bank economist Ruslan Piontkovsky said at a press conference in Kiev.

"An improvement of the situation in Ukraine, at least at the statistical level, should be expected only in Q4," Piontkovsky said.

KIEV, April 8 – An International Monetary Fund team arrived in Ukraine on Wednesday for talks over a $1.85 billion loan installment after receiving “strong assurances” from Ukrainian leaders that all anti-crisis bills will be soon approved.

KIEV, April 8 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s group on Tuesday joined forces with the opposition Regions and Communist parties to approve internal legislative regulations setting them on a collision course with President Viktor Yushchenko.

MOSCOW, April 8 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that Moscow will do all it can to prevent the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia from joining NATO.

KYIV, March 7 – The Norwegian government on Thursday decided to allocate NOK 1.6 billion ($152 million) for the purchase of artillery ammunition for Ukraine as part of the Czech Republic's initiative to purchase ammunition to third countries, according to the Norwegian government's website.

KYIV, March 7 - Ukraine’s president on Thursday announced that he has approved his former top general, whom he dismissed last month, to become the country’s new ambassador to the United Kingdom, a key supporter of Ukraine in its war with Russia.

KYIV, March 7 – Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that if Europe wants to restore peace, it must increase weapons production and ban the export of artillery ammunition to other continents.

KYIV, March 7 - European Union leaders sharply criticized a deadly Russian attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa on Wednesday. The attack, which reportedly killed five people, came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the same city.

KYIV, March 7 - Russian troops will have “open road” to capture key cities in eastern Ukraine if they seize control of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned in an interview with CNN, as he defended his decision to keep Ukrainian forces in the besieged city.