KIEV, Oct. 31 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday used his constitutional power to suspend the government??™s resolution that had been seeking to impose greater control over police forces across the country.

KIEV, Oct. 31 ??“ Parliament, led by the pro-government majority, on Tuesday voted to approve in the first reading the 2007 budget draft ending disagreements within the coalition and showing the government has been winning greater support.

KIEV, Oct. 31 ??“ Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko??™s party will hold a rally in front of Parliament on Tuesday demanding the government direct $4.8 bln in proceeds from Kryvorizhstal steel mill selloff on social spending.

KIEV, Oct. 31 ??“ Former Prosecutor General, who contests in court his dismissal by President Yushchenko, will push his case by suggesting he had been sacked while being sick, Piskun??™s lawyer said.

KIEV, Oct. 31 ??“ A major compromise may have emerged Monday at a meeting between President Viktor Yushchenko and Parliament group leaders, signaling a possible breakthrough in Ukraine??™s quick accession to the World Trade Organization.

KYIV, Sept 29 - Two consecutive Russian attacks on a medical center in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Saturday killed at least nine people, officials said.

KYIV, Sept 30 – Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, during talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Sybiha in Budapest, said Hungary will continue to support Ukraine's energy supply and will encourage its largest oil and gas company MOL and the power transmission system operator MAVIR to help develop Ukrainian energy.

KYIV, Sept 30 – Roksolana Pidlasa, the head of the parliamentary budget committee, considers external assistance from partners to be the main and only source of budget financing next year, she said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine agency.

KYIV, Sept 30 – Italy, as the G7 presidency, is currently seeking a political commitment from the EU and G7 countries to participate in an initiative to provide Ukraine with $50 billion by the end of 2024 from revenues from frozen Russian assets around the end of October, European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said.

KYIV, Sept 30 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that the situation on the front line of the war against Russia was "very, very difficult," and Ukraine's forces had to do everything they could over the autumn period, Reuters reported.