BUCHAREST, April 25 – Ukraine and Romania have renewed the composition of the joint presidential commission, which is to meet in Kiev soon, and deal with disputes between the two countries and protection of minorities.

KIEV, April 25 – A safe confinement with a protection arch to be placed over the power unit N4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which was demolished as the result of the disaster 30 years ago, is due to be completed in November 2016, said Ihor Hramotkin, director general of the Chernobyl plant.

WARSAW, April 25 - Ukraine needs to break apart monopolies and sell off state-owned firms to transform itself into a well-functioning capitalist economy, a newly-appointed Polish adviser to the Ukrainian president said on Monday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 25 - Ukraine prepared on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system.

KIEV, April 22 – President Petro Poroshenko said Kiev faces a grave lack of financing for the national military and industrial complex because Parliament did not pass a measure to direct illegally-gained assets of Ukrainian ex-officials to the government.

KIEV, April 23 – The foreign ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Denmark and the Netherlands will come to Ukraine on April 30, the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, April 24 - President Viktor Yanukovych, in response to a letter of request from members of the board of trustees of the Okhmatdyt National Children's Hospital (Kiev), has ordered the government to urgently address the issue of funding the construction of a new building at the hospital.

BRUSSELS, April 24 – The fulfillment by Kiev of those of its obligations necessary to achieve the signing of the Association Agreement with the European Union demonstrates Ukraine's commitment, but still there are unsettled issues that have to be tackled, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule has said.

KIEV, April 25 - Foreign ministers of several EU countries gave Ukraine a discouraging report on Thursday on its efforts to deepen ties with the bloc and suggested the jailing of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko remained a serious obstacle, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 24 – Work to remove fuel from the destroyed fourth nuclear reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant will begin no earlier than in 30 years, said Dmytro Bobro has said first deputy chairman of the Emergencies Ministry’s State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone.