KIEV, Aug. 5 - Ukraine's economy may start recovering in the coming months as a contraction in output - battered by a separatist conflict in the industrial east - slows, as shown by a Reuters poll on Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 5 - Ukraine and its creditors hit another stumbling block Wednesday after a new debt restructuring offer from Kiev and call for a "decisive" final meeting drew only a tepid response.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law on amendments to the Tax Code regarding residential property, under which individuals are exempted from paying property tax on immovable property other than land plots in 2013, as time to form a register of taxpayers is required, the Income and Tax Ministry reported.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – The European Union warned Ukraine on Monday that its recent law restricting imports of old vehicles may seriously undermine bilateral trade and should be lifted.

KIEV, August 2 – The investigatory department of Kiev's Tax Police has closed a criminal case against TVi Channel Director General Mykola Kniazhytsky, according to the Kiev's Prosecutor's Office.

KIEV, August 3 – Eleven combat ships of the Ukrainian Navy are to be overhauled in 2012, the Defense Ministry reported.

Plans to restore the technical readiness of the Ukrainian Navy's ships were unveiled at a meeting led by the navy's commander, Vice Admiral Yuriy Ilyin.

KIEV, Aug. 3 – A deal between Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund over resumption of a $15 billion loan this year may be in doubt after Prime Minister Mykola Azarov indicated Friday the lender’s key demand won’t be implemented.

SIMFEROPOL, Aug. 4 - The development of Crimea is impossible without the development of the whole of Ukraine, said President Viktor Yanukovych.

"The development of Crimea directly depends on the development of Ukraine. If there is the development of Ukraine, there will be the development of Crimea.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – The adoption of the new tax code will lead to a cut in the size of the shadow economy and increase Ukraine's investment attractiveness, which would in turn create jobs, representatives of the Finance Ministry and Parliament said at a press conference on Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has called on Ukrainians to challenge in the courts the decision by the country's authorities to raise prices for natural gas.