KIEV, Feb. 25 – Law enforcers have announced their suspicion of four individuals, including two minors, in connection with the Feb. 20 attacks on the System Capital Management office, as well as Alfa-Bank and Sberbank branches in the Kiev city center.

KIEV, Feb. 28 – Ukraine's full-scale rapprochement with the EU, including further EU membership, remains a strategic priority for Ukraine and a key issue of national security, Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Andriy Kliuyev said.

KIEV, Feb. 28 - Ukraine rebuked the European Union's ambassador on Tuesday after he publicly criticized the government for creating a poor business climate and practicing selective justice.

KIEV, Feb. 27 – MPs Yaroslav Sukhy (Regions Party faction) and Kateryna Lukyanova (Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense faction) have proposed to introduce different income tax rates for individuals over 30 years old.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 27 – Relations between Ukraine and the European Union are currently at a critical point, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule said.

KIEV, Feb. 27 – The cabinet could submit to Parliament by the end of the second quarter a draft law on cutting fuel import duties in order to stabilize the price of fuel.

KIEV, Feb. 28 – The final switch of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to a contractual or volunteer basis, increasing the army's military efficiency, and the resolution of the acute social problems of soldiers, could remain an unachievable task, Presidential Secretariat head Viktor Baloha said.

KIEV, Feb. 28 - A day after Ukraine paid most of its 2007 natural gas debts, Russian gas giant Gazprom accused the country of incurring $600 million debt for gas supplied in January and February.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 26 – Kiev and Brussels are considering the issue of the possible exports of electricity in the future, as well as Ukraine's membership in the Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE), Parliamentary Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk and European Commissioner for Energy Andris Piebalgs said in Brussels on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 26 – Parliamentary Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk has called for maintaining an "adequate level of access" for all of the foreign investors to the Ukrainian energy market, while observing state control.