KIEV, March 6 - Canada said Monday it plans to extend its military mission in Ukraine by another two years, a training mission that Russia has previously decried as “counterproductive and deplorable,” Globe and Mail reported.

KIEV, March 4 – The District Administrative Court in Kiev has suspended a number of decisions by the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

A number of decisions were suspended on March 4 at the prosecutor's request in order to launch court proceedings, a source told Interfax-Ukraine.

SIMFEROPOL, March 6 – The proposed referendum on the status of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has been moved from March 30 to March 16.

KIEV, March 6 – The European Union's official bulletin Eur-Lex has published a regulation on freezing assets belonging to 18 Ukrainian citizens suspected of misappropriation of government funds and violating human rights.

BRUSSELS, March 6 - Leading Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday called for Europe to take strong action over Crimea's attempt to join Russia, warning that otherwise Moscow would move to take over the rest of Ukraine and destabilize the continent, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, March 6 - President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered sanctions on people responsible for Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula, including travel bans and freezing of their U.S. assets, and said a referendum by the region to join Russia would violate international law, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 4 – The Ukrainian Defense Ministry believes that a realistic date for the transition to the contract-based staffing of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is 2017.

KIEV, March 5 – The Ukrainian government intends to stimulate the domestic production of medicines, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

"In the coming years, the government will take the line of stimulating the production of essential drugs in Ukraine," he said at a meeting with major domestic distributors of medicines in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, March 5 – UDAR parliamentary faction Vitali Klitschko says that President Viktor Yanukovych has to tell people about possible consequences of his recent visit to Moscow for Ukraine and the process of its European integration.

KIEV, March 6 - Ukraine and Russia will hold the next round of talks on natural gas supplies and prices in April, President Viktor Yanukovych said Wednesday.