KYIV, Aug 6 - Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman expects that by the end of this year the average wage in the country will increase to UAH 10,000.

"The main priority is the average wage. And we want to increase this figure to UAH 10,000 (by the end of the year). This is a real story. Now the wage exceeds UAH 8,000," he said.

KYIV, Aug 6 – Some 54% of Ukrainians want to see experts and representatives of public organizations in the composition of competition commissions for the selection of judges, according to a sociological survey conducted by GfK Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – At a meeting of the Ukraine-EU Joint Readmission Committee created as a tool for assessing the implementation of the readmission agreement signed by Ukraine and the EU the two sides pointed out intensive cooperation in this direction.

KIEV, Aug. 7 - The leader of a self-proclaimed separatist republic in eastern Ukraine, Igor Plotnitskiy, has been injured in a bomb attack, BBC reported, citing rebel officials.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – Consumers most often receive poor quality medicines through unlicensed retailers, the State Administration on Medicinal Products said.

"According to statistics from the World Health Organization, 87% of low quality, counterfeit and falsely labeled drugs come to consumers through unlicensed ways.

HORLIVKA, Aug. 7 – The expert commission currently investigating the ammonia explosion at a Stirol in Horlivka, Donetsk region, currently has three theories about what happened: a violation of equipment operation procedure, negligence by maintenance staff, or the violation of safety rules.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – Law enforcement agencies are probing Stirol’s top management after the chemical company failed to promptly report Tuesday’s deadly ammonia leak to the authorities, prosecutors said Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – A group of Ukrainian dignitaries on Tuesday met President Viktor Yanukovych in a final attempt to stop the signing of controversial legislation that would elevate the use of Russian language in Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – Tensions rose sharply in Ukraine on Friday after the arrest of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is on trial for signing a controversial natural gas agreement with Russia in January 2009.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – The Ukrainian government is studying the possibility of terminating the gas supply contract with Russia signed by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko through the courts, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.