KIEV, May 27 - Russia's army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week.
BRUSSELS, May 26 – The European Union announced it has increased its support for the work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Ukraine.
KIEV, May 27 – The period of pre-arbitration settlement of the dispute between Naftogaz Ukraine and JSC Gazprom expires on May 29 and Russia is acting unconstructively, but there is still a chance the two gas companies can sign an agreement, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.
KIEV, May 27 - Ukraine raised the stakes in a dispute with Russia over gas supplies on Tuesday, saying Russian state-controlled company Gazprom owed Kiev natural gas worth around $1 billion which it had "stolen" when Moscow annexed Crimea, Reuters reported.
KIEV, May 27 - Ukrainian aircraft and paratroopers killed more than 50 pro-Russian rebels in an assault that raged into a second day on Tuesday after a newly elected president vowed to crush the revolt in the east once and for all, Reuters reported.
KIEV, May 27 – Ukraine is looking to become an observer at a Russian-led trade bloc and parties may finally agree on the status during a high-level meeting on May 29 in Astana, an official said Monday.
KIEV, May 25 – Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn on Friday suggested that Parliament must be dissolved to hold early elections after lawmakers had failed to resolve a deadlock over the Russian language bill.
KIEV, May 24 – Widespread corruption is still among the most serious problems in Ukraine, according to the U.S. Department of State's Report on Human Rights Practices for 2011.
LVIV, May 27 – President Viktor Yanukovych, during his first visit to Lviv, the stronghold of his political opponents, announced plans to bid for hosting 2022 Winter Olympics, but messed up the name of a Ukrainian region that could accommodate it.
