KIEV, Sept. 4 – Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych’s coalition defied President Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday by holding Parliament’s emergency session, but it failed to summon up enough lawmakers to reach a quorum and cancel the Sept. 30 election.

KIEV, Sept. 4 ??“ Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the opposition in Ukraine, attacked the government of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych on Monday for attempts to cut special spending and unclear foreign policy.

KIEV, Sept. 4 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko??™s Our Ukraine party on Monday resumed pressure on its would-be coalition partners to expel the Communist Party from the coalition government.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Friday Ukraine will seek to continue to get paid with natural gas for shipping Russian gas to markets in Europe during the next 8 years.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - President Viktor Yushchenko on Saturday accepted the resignation of Oleksandr Zinchenko, the Secretary of State, who had been leading the office of the president ever since Yushchenko assumed power in January.

KIEV, Sept. 4 - Ukraine's national soccer team returned home to a warm welcome Sunday after winning a place in next year's World Cup finals.

MOSCOW, Sept. 3 - Standard & Poor's Rating Services on Thursday revised its outlook on Ukraine-based Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Social Development Ukrsotsbank (USB) to developing from stable, reads an S&P press release.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - Luhansk regional authorities are expecting to attract an investor to their project to construct a cement factory, the strategic development department of Luhansk regional state administration told.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - In January-August Ukrainian mining and metallurgical enterprise cut production of basic metal products such as cast iron, steel and rolled stock by 1-3% in comparison with the same period of the past year, though increased production of pipes by 16%, iron ore stuff - by 8%.

KYIV, Aug 3 – The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease in Ukraine may begin within the next two weeks, experts from Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) believe.