KIEV, Dec. 26 - President Viktor Yushchenko, on a surprise one-day visit to Iraq on Monday, said Ukraine seeks boosting cooperation with the Middle East nation in oil and gas extraction, transportation and power machinery sectors.

LONDON, Dec. 26 ??“ Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is confident that a year after the Orange Revolution, which brought him to power, Ukraine's democracy is showing results.

KIEV, Dec. 26 - The recent visit by Russian State Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin to Sevastopol is the first step towards the long-awaited inventory of the Black Sea Fleet, said Chief of the Ukrainian presidential secretariat Oleh Rybachuk.

KIEV, Dec. 26 - EnergoAtom, the state company responsible for managing Ukraine's four nuclear power plants, said Monday it signed a contract with a U.S. firm for the development of a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.

KIEV, Dec. 23 ??“ President Leonid Kuchma met the country??™s top law enforcement officials Thursday amid fears that clashes may be planned by the authorities to disrupt the presidential vote Sunday.

MOSCOW, Dec. 23 ??“ Russian President Vladimir Putin plunged into embarrassment Thursday by calling on Ukrainian pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, the likely winner of the Dec. 26 presidential election, not to appoint ???Zionists??? to his government.

KIEV, Dec. 24 ??“ Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych??™s campaign spent an estimated $94 million to bribe local election committee officials and voters throughout Ukraine during the past two months, a study released Friday shows.

KYIV, Nov 23 – The state budget of Ukraine received about $400 million under a UK guarantee through the World Bank Trust Fund under the Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance (PEACE) Project in Ukraine.

KYIV, Nov 24 – The Verkhovna Rada must, by mid-December, adopt bills for the final implementation of the recommendations of the European Commission to begin negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the European Union, Deputy Chair of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction Yevhenia Kravchuk said.

KYIV, Nov 25 - Ukraine said on Saturday it had downed 74 out of 75 drones Russia launched at it overnight, in what it said was the biggest such attack since the start of the invasion.