BRUSSELS, June 25 - Russian President Vladimir Putin is not done in eastern Ukraine, NATO's top commander said on Thursday, cautioning that Russia has been building up supplies on its border with Ukraine and keeping its military options open, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 23 – The Prosecutor General's Office has opened a criminal case on the illegal suspension of state purchases of bulletproof vests intended for army by the officials of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine.

KIEV, June 23 – President Petro Poroshenko has expressed his hope that Russia will heed to the recommendations of the EU Foreign Affairs Council of Ministers relating to the promotion of de-escalation of the situation in the eastern regions.

KIEV, June 25 - Ukraine asked the IMF on Wednesday to take into account the extra financial burden of fighting an insurgency in the east as it decides on further disbursement of aid under a $17 billion bailout program, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, June 25 - Russia must take "concrete" steps to resolve the Ukraine crisis, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday, warning Moscow could easily reinstate its parliamentary approval for military intervention, AFP reported.

KIEV, June 24 - Ukraine on Monday condemned the shooting of three Ukrainian climbers by militant gunmen in Pakistan and demanded compensation for the victims’ families.

KIEV, June 21 - Germany's foreign minister urged Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych to let his jailed opponent Yulia Tymoshenko go to Germany for medical treatment and he warned against the use of "selective justice" in the ex-Soviet republic, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 25 - Georgia and Ukraine share a common danger which consists in Russia's plans to create "a transformed USSR," i.e. the Eurasian Union, Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper (ZN.UA).

KIEV, June 25 – Ukraine’s government won’t push for a constitutional amendment to make Russian the second state language in Ukraine, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Monday, reversing an earlier push by the ruling Regions Party.

KIEV, June 22 – The united opposition wants to eliminate "the total monopoly" of the Ukrainian authorities in politics and the economy, as well as simplify the tax system to the maximum, said Arseniy Yatseniuk, Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense parliamentary faction MP and head of the Front for Change Party.