KIEV, Dec. 30 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law, which increases the deficit of the national budget for 2013 by UAH 19.4 billion, to UAH 69.98 billion, and the ceiling of state debt for the end of the current year by the same sum, to UAH 502.48 billion.

KIEV, Dec. 30 – An activist at Road Control, a website exposing traffic police corruption, has fled Ukraine after receiving threats that he may be arrested or even assassinated.

KIEV, Dec. 29 ??“ Protesters lifted their blockade of government offices Wednesday after receiving assurances that Viktor Yanukovych, the controversial Prime Minister, will not enter the building for at least two days.

KIEV, Dec. 29 ??“ Viktor Yushchenko, the liberal opposition leader who won the Sunday presidential election, within weeks plans a dramatic overhaul of political decision making along with creation of a new government, sources and analysts said.

KYIV, Oct 30 – Ukrainian experts have documented more than 5,800 instances of direct environmental harm due to the war, with initial damage estimates around $60 billion, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that North Korean troops wearing Russian uniforms and carrying Russian equipment are moving toward Ukraine, in what he called a dangerous and destabilizing development.

KYIV, Oct 28 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) expects that if active hostilities with the Russian forces continue through the middle of 2024, the harvest of grain and leguminous crops in the country will decrease (under a pessimistic scenario with a blockade of its ports) to 51.5 million tons per 2023 (40% less compared to 2021), and to 52.5 million tons in 2024 (38.7% less).

KYIV, Oct 28 – The amount of funding Ukraine has received from international partners to cover the state budget deficit amounted to $23.12 billion between Feb. 24 and Oct. 26, the Ministry of Finance reported. The amount is 65% of the pledged assistance of $36.959 billion.

KYIV, Oct 30 - Russia resumed its blockade of Ukrainian ports on Sunday, cutting off urgently needed grain exports to hungry parts of the world in what U.S. President Joe Biden called a “really outrageous” act.

KYIV, Oct 28 – Ukraine’s economy will probably shrink 35.6% on the year in the fourth quarter, accelerating from 34.4% contraction recorded in the third quarter, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.