KIEV, June 3 – Ukraine's Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry has announced the end of the spring sowing campaign in Ukraine.

"Our sowing campaign is over… We've got fairly good results," Agriculture Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko told reporters at the Agro-2015 international agro-industrial exhibition.

VIENNA, June 4 – Agreement has been reached for Ukraine to pump at least 19 bcm of gas into underground storage facilities for the next winter, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters.

KIEV, June 4 – The Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/SMM) has published a separate report concerning the fighting that erupted near the town of Maryinka in the Donetsk region on Wednesday morning.

ODESSA, June 4 – Former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili, who now heads Odessa Regional Administration, vowed to use his full resources to fight corruption.

KIEV, June 4 - Ukraine's president told his military on Thursday to prepare for a possible "full-scale invasion" by Russia all along their joint border, a day after the worst fighting with Russian-backed separatists in months, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 5 - The Vostok Battalion, a Russian intelligence-linked Chechen-founded paramilitary consisting of battle-hardened militants from the most restive regions within Moscow's orbit, has arrived to take charge of Ukraine's pro-Russian rebels, Business Insider reported Thursday.

KIEV, June 5 - Ukraine’s government on Wednesday decided to reform the national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny by splitting it up to create natural gas transportation, storage and trading units, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said.

KIEV, June 5 - Ukraine said Thursday it had abandoned three checkpoints on the Russian border after a series of night-time attacks by separatists, and AFP reporters on the scene said at least one had been taken over by the militants.

BRUSSELS, June 5 - U.S. President Barack Obama had stern words for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over Russia's actions in Ukraine, following a meeting Thursday of G7 leaders in Brussels, Belgium, at which Russia was excluded, CNN reported.

KIEV, June 5 - The newest BTR-4E armored personnel carriers in combat conditions have proved their high technical specifications in Sloviansk in Donetsk region and an increase of interest from potential customers of Ukrainian armored vehicles is seen, Ukroboronprom State Concern has said.