MOSCOW, March 27 - Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko will serve her 22-year jail term over the killing of two Russian journalists, the Kremlin said Saturday despite Kiev's pushing for a prisoner exchange, AFP reported.

KIEV, March 27 – It is likely that Ukraine will have to adjust its plans for sowing spring crops due to unfavorable weather conditions in March, the director of the plant growing department at the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry, Oleksandr Demydov, said.

KIEV, March 28 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Thursday ruled out a hike in natural gas prices for households, a key demand from the International Monetary Fund for resumption of lending.

KIEV, March 28 - Ukraine on Thursday began importing natural gas via a gas pipeline in Hungary, making it the second route for the country’s imports of European gas, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, March 27 – Ukraine and the United States are planning to put into operation in May a key facility for the disposal of solid rocket fuel from SS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles at Pavlohrad Chemical Plant in Dnipropetrovsk region.

KIEV, March 28 – Ukraine’s leading opposition party, Batkivshchyna, will hold an emergency meeting on Friday amid reports it was about to incorporate other opposition groups in a major unification effort ahead of the October election.

KIEV, March 26 – The criminal case against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation could be sent to court in early April, Tymoshenko's defense lawyer Oleksandr Plakhotniuk has said.

KIEV, March 28 – The Emergencies Ministry has proposed that the government oblige the municipally-owned Kiev Metropoliten enterprise to urgently make its facilities safe from fire, the ministry reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, March 28 – President Viktor Yanukovych has met with Prime Minister of South Korea Kim Hwang-sik in Seoul.

KIEV, March 25 – One of the aspects of a criminal case opened against second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma (1994-2005) is an attempt to seize a portion of the property from his son-in-law - Ukrainian businessman Victor Pinchuk, former prime minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko said.