KIEV, Dec. 25 - The latest reshuffle in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry will not impact the country's foreign policy, ministry spokesman Oleh Voloshyn told Interfax.

KIEV, Dec. 25 - Ukraine’s Interior Ministry says one of its helicopters has crashed in the central part of the country, killing all 5 people on board, The Associated Press reported.

KIEV, Dec. 25 – It is impossible for Ukraine both to join the Customs Union and sign the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, the European Commission said.

KIEV, Dec. 25 – Ukraine’s economy is facing extremely tough environment in 2013 and it is a matter of “survival” for the government to spend money wisely next year, President Viktor Yanukovych said Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 23 - A group of women from a Ukrainian topless-protest group on Wednesday recounted their ordeal in neighboring Belarus, where they claimed they were kidnapped, beaten and abused by local security officials.

KIEV, Dec. 23 — A Ukrainian court on Friday kept former Premier Yulia Tymoshenko in jail on charges of abuse of office, defying renewed Western pressure to release the country’s top opposition leader.

KIEV, Dec. 25 – The presidential secretariat doubts that the cabinet has the right to hire foreign financial consultants and pay them "premium-class" remuneration, said Roman Bezsmertny, deputy head of the presidential secretariat.

KIEV, Dec. 25 – The Cabinet of Ministers has commissioned the Ministry of Industrial Policy to increase the statutory capital levels of the Kharkiv and Kiev aircraft factories by issuing cheap state loans from budget funds.

KIEV, Dec. 25 – Rescuers were searching Thursday for dozens of people trapped under the rubble of an apartment building destroyed in a nighttime explosion that killed at least 22 people in southern Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 25 – Parliament on Thursday rejected Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s 2009 budget, a development that greatly increases pressure on the government as the Dec. 31 deadline looms.