KIEV, Aug. 5 – President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday ordered troops deployed to block entry to forests across Ukraine in an effort to prevent wildfires.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – The deputies of three largest factions in Parliament have proposed extending the effectiveness of the 13% extra import duty on meat, alcoholic drinks and a whole number of industrial goods.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – The National Bank of Ukraine will not make enough money this year to allocate 9.8 billion hryvnias to finance infrastructure projects as Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has requested, a former NBU governor said Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny needs to restructure its $500 million eurobond debt next month as timing of a proposed $1.7 billion of lending from international financial institutions was “unclear,” acting Finance Minister Ihor Umanskiy said Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – The Ukrainian government made two massive payments worth a total of $1.1 billion on Wednesday, days after receiving $3.3 billion loan installment from the International Monetary Fund, officials said.

MOSCOW, Aug. 4 - Kiev's stance on arms supply to Georgia is unfriendly towards Russia, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin.

"We believe that the Ukrainian leadership has taken a stand in the issue of military hardware supplies to Georgia that is unfriendly towards us," he said in an interview with Interfax on Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – The government is planning to allocate the funds originally allocated by Ukraine's 2008 national budget for refunding defaulted Soviet-era deposits as compensation to the regions hit by the recent severe floods in western Ukraine, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told reporters in Chernivtsi region on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s government on Tuesday revoked its proposal to Vanco Prykerchenska, a joint venture led by U.S. oil company Vanco Energy, to hold talks to try to settle their license dispute.

KIEV, Aug. 4 - The European Union, NATO, the United Nations, Japan, Spain, the United States and Estonia intend to extend humanitarian aid to Ukraine following the floods in the country’s western regions, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – Ukraine's Coal Industry Ministry, from 2005 to H1 2007, used over UAH2 billion in state budget assets in violation of the law, which accounts for 58% of state spending on the coal industry, an audit shows.