KIEV, April 25 - The recipients of energy subsidies in the past heating season rose to 5.5 million Ukrainian households, or 36% of their total number, said Vitaliy Muzychenko, the head of the state social assistance department at the Social Policy Ministry.

KIEV, April 26 – Radical Party Oleh Liashko has urged the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Security Service of Ukraine to launch a probe into abuse of power by President Petro Poroshenko and his associates during the purchase of MAZ trucks assembled by a plant of Bogdan Corporation belonging to the president, instead of Ukrainian-made KrAZ trucks.

KIEV, April 24 – The public opinion of Ukrainian towards joining NATO is slowly getting more positive, and the number of supporters of joining NATO has already exceeded the number of those opposing the idea, according to the results of the poll conducted by the Razumkov Center.

KIEV, April 24 – The assembly of donor countries, the highest decision making authority of the Chernobyl Shelter Fund, and a fund raising conference are scheduled to be held on April 29 in London, MP Mykola Tomenko (Petro Poroshenko Bloc) told parliament.

KIEV, April 24 – President Petro Poroshenko has approved a decree on the Ukraine-NATO national yearlong cooperation program for 2015, president's press service reported.

KIEV, April 26 - A fragile ceasefire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists came under renewed pressure on Sunday with the Ukrainian military reporting a serviceman had been killed and seven others wounded in rebel attacks, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, April 26 – Brussels has warned Kiev once again that the signature and ratification of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement depend on certain political circumstances including the situation with former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, April 26 - Ukraine on Thursday launched construction of a EUR1 billion new safe confinement over the damaged reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to make it environmentally friendly.

KIEV, April 26 – Opposition lawmakers blocking Parliament for the second day Thursday threatened to continue the protest through the next week unless the authorities investigate the alleged beating of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, April 26 – Parliament has expanded the powers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), empowering the body with the right to initiate the arrest of terrorists' assets for an indefinite period of time.