KIEV, March 24 - Ukrainian government troops and separatist fighters have drawn closer to each other at several places along the tense front line in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing monitors.

MOSCOW, March 24 – The Russian authorities have begun extradition proceedings against former Ukrainian Parliament MP Oleksandr Shepelev, who is suspected of homicide and embezzlement.

KIEV, March 25 – If parliamentary elections in Ukraine were held now, 14.1% of Ukrainians would vote for the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, according to a public opinion survey conducted by the Razumkov Center sociological service.

KIEV, March 25 – The European Commission in its European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) in Ukraine Progress Report 2014 has recommended Ukraine conduct Constitutional reform, first of all, on decentralization.

KIEV, March 25 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed into law the amendments to the Ukrainian law on joint stock companies, the presidential press service said.

KIEV, March 26 – Germany is ready to discuss a peacekeeping mission being dispatched to eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said, referring to a meeting between Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Hroisman and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier held in Berlin on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, March 26 – The European Parliament, by an overwhelming majority, backed the disbursement of a EUR1.8 billion loan to help Ukraine out of economic recession.

WASHINGTON, March 26 - Russia's $3 billion holding of Ukrainian debt should be classified as 'official' debt, an IMF spokesman said on Thursday, weighing in on what has become a contentious issue in Kiev's economic situation, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, March 26 - International lenders are delaying plans to offer Ukraine billions of dollars on concerns Kiev cannot yet prove the cash will not vanish into a corrupt economy which EU officials fear could remain a "bottomless pit.”

KIEV, March 25 – The Cabinet of Ministers has extended the intergovernmental agreement of cooperation signed with the European Space Agency in January 2008 until 2019, the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) reported.