KIEV, April 4 - President Petro Poroshenko said he plans to press ahead on local elections in Ukraine to be held in fall 2015.

KIEV, April 5 – Six Ukrainian troops were killed by landmines in the restive separatist-held east Sunday, breaking a lull of several days in a conflict that began a year ago this week.

KIEV, April 5 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has ordered Social Policy Minister Serhiy Tyhypko to prepare new wording for the law on employment.

KIEV, April 5 – A Constitution Court ruling announced on Thursday may reduce the number of election districts in the city of Kiev, de-facto benefiting the ruling Regions Party ahead of the October parliamentary elections.

KIEV, April 4 - Ukraine has made progress in talks on the diversification of gas supplies to the country, First Deputy Prime Minister Valeriy Khoroshkovsky said.

KIEV, April 4 - It is too early to talk about success on the road to signing an association agreement with Ukraine, according to Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira, head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine.

KIEV, April 4 - Ukraine purchased an offshore drilling rig from Singapore to expand development of its vast oil and gas deposits in the Black Sea, energy and fuel minister Yuriy Boyko said.

KIEV, April 5 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Tuesday declined speculation that Russia may have offered lower natural gas prices for Ukraine in exchange for Kiev rejecting closer political and economic ties with Brussels.

KIEV, April 5 – Maybe he just can’t help it.

Mykola Melnychenko, a former bodyguard who claims to have made thousands of secret recordings in the office of former President Leonid Kuchma in 1996-2000, may have tried – again - to make an unauthorized recording Monday.

KIEV, April 5 – An industrial facility for the disposal of solid rocket fuel is planned to be put into operation at Pavlohrad Chemical Plant in Dnipropetrovsk region on Tuesday, April 5, a newspaper has reported.