KIEV, April 2 – President Petro Poroshenko has called on the European Council on Foreign Relations to support an initiative to deploy an international peacekeeping mission in Donbas, saying that the peacekeepers will be complementary to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine.

KIEV, April 2 – The Ukrainian government's comprehensive plan of reform should be implemented as soon as possible as Ukraine has little time, Prime Minister Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, April 2 - Ukraine has signed an interim deal for cheaper supplies of gas from Russia for the next three months, providing breathing space for both sides in their protracted wrangle over pricing, Ukrainian energy officials said on Thursday.

KIEV, April 2 - Ukraine, Russia and Moscow-backed separatists are discussing possibly extending a pull-back of weapons in east Ukraine to include tanks and smaller weapons systems.

KIEV, April 2 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that the diplomatic, political, financial and economic means of resolving the Donbas conflict must be backed up by the Ukrainian military's defensive capabilities.

KIEV, April 2 – President Petro Poroshenko has signed amendments to the laws protecting Ukraine's information space, TV and radio broadcasts, which ban audio or video products which harm Ukraine's national security and glorifies the law enforcement agencies, armed forces and other military formations of an aggressor state.

KIEV, April 2 - Ukraine’s new government fully backs project of building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in order to diversify the country’s energy imports away from Russia, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said Wednesday.

NEW YORK, April 2 - In a diplomatic blow to Russia, the United Nations will continue to view Crimea as part of Ukraine in line with a General Assembly resolution adopted last week, United States and Western diplomats said Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, April 2 - Further Russian intervention in Ukraine, following its annexation of Crimea, would be an "historic mistake" that would deepen Russia's international isolation, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday.

KIEV, April 1 - Ukraine is not planning to denounce its four agreements with Russia on the Black Sea Fleet, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko said.