KIEV, Feb. 3 – Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service expects a 40% increase in passenger and transport flows across the state border during the Euro 2012 European Football Championship.

KIEV, Feb. 5 - Ukraine has the chance to have GDP growth in 2009, and the government's forecast of 0.4% GDP growth for this year is quite realistic, said Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, Feb. 5 - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday rejected Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s claims that Ukraine was responsible for the disruption in gas supplies to the European Union last month.

KIEV, Feb. 5 - A merchant ship carrying tanks and weapons held by pirates off the coast of Somalia since September has been freed, Ukraine's president announced Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 5 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s government on Thursday survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament, the second time over the past seven months, while the financial crisis hitting Ukraine continued to worsen.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – The Ukrainian government and the World Bank have started realizing a project for the development of town infrastructure, and the World Bank is allocating a $140 million credit, Municipal Economy Minister Oleksiy Kucherenko said at a press conference in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 5 – Ukraine this marketing year (July 2008-June 2009) may be fourth or fifth among the world’s largest grain exporters, according to First Deputy Agriculture Minister Yuriy Luzan.

KIEV, Feb. 4 - Ukraine's accession to the World Trade Organization will be a positive signal for investors and would increase the inflow of foreign investment into the country, Martin Raiser, the economic advisor of the World Bank's representative office in Ukraine, said in an interview in with the weekly Business.