KYIV, April 1 – Ukraine has foiled an attempt by two Iranian nationals to buy parts of an advanced missile in Kyiv earlier this year, the Daily Beast reported citing sources at the intelligence service.

CHERNIHIV, March 31 – President Petro Poroshenko said 140 prisoners of war have been released since the second package of Minsk agreements was signed on February 12.

KIEV, March 31 – The frozen assets and property located in Ukraine which belong to former Ukrainian officials are under state control and will be returned to the national budget, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said.

KIEV, March 31 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal made by the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry to introduce one-month emergency measures in Ukraine's electricity sector for the sixth time, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, March 31 – Ukraine is ready to meet technical requirements for visa-free travel to the European Union in time for the Eastern Partnership summit and is expecting the EU to send a political signal of its preparedness to take this step, said deputy chief of the Ukrainian presidential administration Dmitry Shymkiv.

KIEV, April 1 – Ukraine and the World Bank have agreed that $400 million out of an $800 million loan provided by the bank for the reconstruction of the Poltava-Kharkiv highway will go to repair existing roads, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

KIEV, April 1 - Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said that Russia has no right to take all the credit for defeating Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, known as World War II in the west.

LONDON, April 1 - Ukraine has yet to send restructuring proposals to bondholders though it had planned to start talks this week as part of a fast-track debt swap aimed at saving the country $15.3 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing creditors.

KIEV, April 1 - Ukraine hopes to sign a memorandum with Moscow this month on supplies that will run until the end of March 2016, its energy minister said on Wednesday.

KIEV, April 1 – Due to the annexation of Crimea by Russia Ukraine has to revise the terms of the launch of the first Ukrainian Lybid communications satellite: the launch scheduled for April earlier is postponed until summer, a source in the space sector told Interfax-Ukraine.