BRUSSELS, Feb. 26 – The European Union will not rule out increasing sanctions on Russia if it continues to destabilize eastern Ukraine, European Council President Donald Tusk said during a speech to the European Parliament on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 26 - Russia, Ukraine and the European Union will hold talks in Brussels on Monday to discuss problems with gas supplies to Ukraine, the EU said on Thursday, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, Feb. 26 – The European Union believes there are still reasons to impose fresh sanctions on Russia but hopes the Minsk deal concluded on February 12 will be fulfilled, a European diplomat told Interfax on Thursday.

MOSCOW, Feb. 26 - Gazprom said on Thursday it would exempt gas supplies to Ukraine’s rebel-held regions from its main contract with Naftogaz Ukrayiny, days before Kiev uses up gas volumes it has already paid for, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 25 - The Central Election Commission has begun accepting registration applications from persons planning to run in Ukraine's May 25 snap presidential election.

KIEV, Feb. 25 - A government of popular confidence cannot include people on the list of Ukraine's richest citizens, or executive agency employees, or members of the presidential administration since the beginning 2010, according to the set of criteria formulated by Maidan activists.

KHARKIV, Feb. 24 - Kharkiv region Governor Mikhail Dobkin has decided to run for the Ukrainian presidency in May.

"Given the fact that the rights of Russian speaking people are suppressed, laws that pose a threat to those who do not take fascism and nationalism are adopted today and proceeding from the fact that one calls to destroy without trial many people who have view that differ from the opinion of the authorities, I made a decision to run for the presidency at the next election," Dobkin told journalists in Kharkiv on Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 26 - Ukraine will be ready to resume a full-fledged bilateral dialogue in the Ukrainian-Russian Interstate Commission's institutions as soon as the new Ukrainian government is formed, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 26 - The European Commission is ready to provide substantial technical assistance to Ukraine as soon as a political decision on this is made, and when a new inclusive government leads the country, EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro Olli Rehn said.

KIEV, Feb. 26 – Ukraine is investigating whether Vetek, an energy group thought to be linked with President Viktor Yanukovych, has been massively importing gasoline without paying import duties, police said Wednesday.