KIEV, June 5 – President Petro Poroshenko will hold a meeting on June 10 with the ministers in charge of technical projects under the Ukraine-EU visa liberalization plan to push for action.

KRUEN, June 7 - Group of Seven (G7) leaders vowed at a summit in the Bavarian Alps on Sunday to keep sanctions against Russia in place until President Vladimir Putin and Moscow-backed separatists fully implement the terms of a peace deal for Ukraine, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 7 - The UK government will boycott the Euro 2012 soccer tournament that begins Friday in protest against the "selective justice" being meted out to jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, the Guardian reported.

KIEV, June 6 – Should the backslide on democracy continue in Ukraine, the U.S. will apply sanctions against the state, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer said during a meeting of a media club in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, June 6 – President Viktor Yanukovych has set up a working group on the development of Ukraine's cooperation with the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia in order to prepare and implement measures to develop the country's cooperation with the union.

KIEV, June 7 – Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko on Tuesday denied speculation that he may be soon appointed to replace Prime Minister Mykola Azarov following their recent clash over lending from the International Monetary Fund.

MOSCOW, June 7 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov failed to make progress in talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over natural gas prices on Tuesday, a major setback for the prime minister and the Ukrainian economy.

KIEV, June 7 – Ukraine would seek to borrow from Russia, and perhaps from capital markets, if the International Monetary Fund refuses to resume its lending, Serhiy Tyhypko, deputy prime minister, said Monday.

KIEV, June 7 – Ukraine’s leading independent television news channel on Monday accused the chief of the country’s SBU security service of attempting to “destroy” the station by seeking to cancel its broadcasting license.

KIEV, June 4 – President Viktor Yanukovych has said he wants Mariupol Illich Steel Mill to remain in the ownership of its workers and is planning to visit the enterprise in future.