KIEV, March 25 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has created an organization committee to prepare and hold a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank group member countries headed by the Netherlands in Kiev on June 3 through June 5.

KIEV, March 25 – Vladyslav Kaskiv, former head of Ukraine's State Agency for Investment and National Projects Management, who is suspected of embezzlement of public funds, has been put on a wanted list and his property seized, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said.

KIEV, March 25 - The Ukrainian lawyer of an alleged Russian special forces soldier has been found dead, days after disappearing in the middle of his trial in Kiev, Ukrainian officials say.

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.