KIEV, July 3 – The Ukrainian government at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday approved a draft law on the anticorruption strategy until 2017 and 10 top-priority steps to fight corruption for the next six months, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko said.

WASHINGTON, July 3 - U.S. President Barack Obama consulted by phone on Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and agreed to keep up the pressure on Russia to defuse the crisis in Ukraine or face more economic sanctions.

KIEV, July 3 - President Petro Poroshenko won Parliament's approval on Thursday to shake up the leadership of the armed forces as they struggle to end a rebellion by pro-Russian separatists, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 3 – Ukraine’s authorities Wednesday arrested a second police officer accused of gang-raping and brutalizing a young woman, yielding to pressure from hundreds of angry protesters who had stormed a local police station.

KIEV, July 3 – The inactivity and resistance of corrupt officials are the main obstacles in the way of profound modernization of Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych said in the opening remarks of his annual address to Parliament.

KIEV, July 3 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Tuesday he has “no doubts” that Ukraine and Russia will make progress in upcoming talks over lower natural gas prices later this month.

KIEV, July 3 – Elevating a political standoff to a new level, Parliament on Tuesday voted to approve a highly controversial law making Russian the de-facto second state language in many of Ukraine’s regions.

KIEV, July 2 – The guests of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship have seen that Ukraine is a modern European state, and this is the main achievement of the tournament, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, July 2 – The older members of the European Union are not interested in Ukraine's European Union membership prospects, according to Boguslaw Liberadzki, a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament.

KIEV, July 3 – There are no grounds for changes in the settlement of the gas issue between Ukraine and Russia, and in the near term this will be limited to information confrontations between the sides, according to Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Penta Center for Applied Political Studies.