BERLIN, May 4 - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday called for a second international conference to put an end to the crisis in Ukraine, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 4 - Pro-Russian militants stormed a Ukrainian police station in Odessa on Sunday and freed nearly 70 fellow activists as the country's leaders lamented a police force they said was widely undermined by graft or collaboration with separatists, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, May 4 – The Euronest Parliamentary Assembly is intending not to allow problems with migrants from North Africa to the EU to affect talks between Kiev and Brussels on visa regime liberalization, Euronest Parliamentary Assembly co-President Kristian Vigenin said at a press conference in Brussels.

KIEV, May 4 – Azerbaijan is ready to supply five billion cubic meters of gas to Ukraine every year for an LNG terminal in Odessa, which is currently under construction, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boiko said.

KIEV, May 4 – Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday defied prosecutors for the third time in less than two weeks by insisting on appointing a lawmaker as part of her defense team.

KIEV, April 29 – The Southern District Court of New York has sent a summons to co-founder of the Swiss-registered gas trader RosUkrEnergo (RUE) Dmytro Firtash urging him to respond to the allegations stated in a lawsuit filed against him by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, May 4 – The gas price formula for Ukraine should be based on the same principles as that for the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Poland and other European countries, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said in a commentary to the First National TV Channel.

TSIBLI, Kiev region, May 4 – President Viktor Yanukovych says that he knew what he was doing when he was signing the agreement in Kharkiv about the prolongation of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's deployment in Crimea in exchange for a reduced gas price for Ukraine.

KIEV, May 4 – Ukraine has started to make payments for Russian natural gas supplies after holding up such payments since the beginning of the year following a dispute with Russian gas giant Gazprom.

KIEV, May 4 – The National Bank of Ukraine said the country’s skyrocketing inflation this year was mostly caused by the government’s rampant social spending, which had aggravated the rising costs of fuel and food.