KIEV, March 26 - The International Monetary Fund concluded talks with Ukrainian officials on Wednesday, and was likely to announce an aid deal on Thursday for Kiev to help plug the government's budget gap and put its economy on a growth track, Reuters reported.

NEW YORK, March 26 - A new classified U.S. intelligence assessment concludes it is more likely than previously thought that Russian forces will enter eastern Ukraine, CNN reported.

KIEV, March 26 – The recent heavy snowfalls in northwest and central regions of Ukraine will not harm winter crops, said Tetiana Adamenko, the head of the agrometeorological department of the Ukrainian Weather Center.

KIEV, March 26 - Ukraine should stop any further increase in coal output until after the country builds plants to convert coal to synthetic gas, President Viktor Yanukovych said Tuesday.

KIEV, March 26 – A top Kiev official, who led a snow emergency response over the past four days, resigned on Tuesday in the first political fallout following the worst snowstorm in a century.

KIEV, March 23 – The European Union supports Ukraine's efforts to move towards forming a market oriented price for its gas and is willing to participate in trilateral discussions on upgrading the Ukrainian gas transportation system, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule said during a meeting with Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko in Brussels late on Thursday.

KIEV, March 23 – President Viktor Yanukovych has upgraded the list of national projects and expanded the powers of the State Agency for Investment and Management of National Projects of Ukraine, the head of the agency, Vladyslav Kaskiv, said on Friday, while commenting on a presidential instruction given on March 22.

KIEV, March 26 - A consignment of enriched uranium - enough to make a nuclear weapon, according to a U.S. expert - rumbled out of a Ukrainian railway depot late on Saturday bound for Russia, a move designed to coincide with an international summit on nuclear security, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 26 – Newly appointed Economy Minister Petro Poroshenko on Monday sought to ease trade tensions with Moscow, and said that Ukraine may benefit from Russia’s joining the World Trade Organization later this year.

TOKYO, March 26 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has called on Japanese businessmen to invest in a number of Ukrainian industries, including in the agricultural and nuclear energy sectors.

Speaking at a Japanese business forum in Tokyo on Thursday, she recalled that "Ukraine has a third of the world's black soils."