MOSCOW, April 26 - Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday three of its troops have been killed and four wounded in eastern Ukraine in an apparent flare-up of fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatists, The Associated Press reported.

CHERNOBYL, April 26 – President Petro Poroshenko said that a new confinement at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant will be put into operation this November.

KIEV, April 26 - The leaders of Ukraine and Belarus on Wednesday have toured the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, marking the 31st anniversary of the disaster.

KIEV, April 26 – Ukraine currently cannot stop using nuclear energy, but it must think of alternative energy, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, April 26 – Ukraine has tightened security measures at its nuclear power plants because of fear of Russian aggression and the failure of the security guarantees granted under the Budapest Memorandum in exchange for giving up its nuclear arsenal, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, April 26 - A prominent TV talk show host in Ukraine declared on Tuesday he was going on hunger strike in protest over a decision by state authorities to strip him of his work permit, a move he described as politically motivated, Reuters reported.

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.