KIEV, July 24 – The unidentified individuals who seized the Etel ship in Benghazi, Libya, have no claims against the ship or its owners, and took this step because of a scam with the delivery of cars by the Faina ship, the Vesti newspaper reported, citing an Odessa cargo carrier.

KIEV, July 24 – The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has donated two low-temperature freezers to the main military clinical hospital in Kiev for the storage of blood components.

KIEV, July 25 - Traffic will be temporarily restricted in downtown Kiev on the weekend from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. because of events to mark the 1,025th anniversary of the Christianization of Kievan Rus, the public relations department of the Kiev police reported.

KIEV, July 25 – Police will change course and start cooperating with activists and journalists from Traffic Control, a publication that exposes police brutality and corruption, Internal Affairs Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko said Thursday.

KIEV, July 25 – President Viktor Yanukovych’s Regions Party will hold a meeting on Monday to approve a list of candidates that will run for parliamentary seats at general elections in October, the party announced Wednesday.

KIEV, July 24 – The Defense Ministry has added the new light BTR-4E armored personnel carrier to the arsenal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the ministry reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, July 24 – The rules of local government are being crudely violated in Kiev, said Oleksandr Omelchenko, chairman of Parliament’s committee on state building and local government.

KIEV, July 25 – In general Spaniards see Ukrainian immigrants as hardworking and educated people, according to the results of a study conducted by the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB).

KIEV, July 25 - President Viktor Yanukovych has dismissed Vasyl Volha from the post of the head of the state commission for financial service markets regulation.

KIEV, July 22 – The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has postponed its consideration of a lawsuit filed by former Ukrainian Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko against Swiss-registered gas trader RosUkrEnergo (RUE) and its co-owner Dmytro Firtash until September 9, Radio Liberty reported on Friday, referring to the office of Judge Richard Sullivan.