KIEV, March 1 - Parliament Speaker and interim President Oleksandr Turchynov has accused Russia of military aggression against Ukraine.

"Russia has started blatant aggression against Ukraine under the guise of military exercises.

KIEV, March 2 - Finance ministers from the Group of Seven rich nations on Sunday pledged to throw a financial lifeline to Ukraine as long as the new government in Kiev agreed to pursue economic reforms sought by the International Monetary Fund.

WASHINGTON, March 2 - The United States on Sunday said it will send its top diplomat to Kiev in a show of support and threatened economic sanctions against Russia but made clear it is not seriously considering military action over Ukraine, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 2 - Ukraine mobilized for war on Sunday and Washington threatened to isolate Russia economically after President Vladimir Putin declared he had the right to invade his neighbor in Moscow's biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War.

KIEV, Feb. 28 – Parliament will consider a bill of measures to prevent and combat corruption in Ukraine at a session on Thursday, the parliament speaker said.

LUHANSK, March 2 – The removal of the government led by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov is “impossible,” according to Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn.

KIEV, March 2 – The government failed to persuade the International Monetary Fund to postpone indefinitely a major increase in household natural gas prices next month, according to a memorandum obtained and published by a newspaper.

BRUSSELS, March 1 - European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek said that Ukraine and the European Union need each other, and added that the first meeting of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly of the Eastern Partnership would be held in Brussels on March 23-24.

KIEV, March 2 – The Health Ministry announced it has drawn up a list of foodstuffs that are to be checked for genetically modified organism (GMO) content.

The list of foodstuffs will be approved after it is agreed with central executive agencies.

BRUSSELS, March 2 – The European Union's drive to sign an EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and free trade deal in 2011 is the union's "most far-reaching offer," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said, European online newspaper EUObserver reported.