KIEV, April 25 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday postponed the date for early election until June 24 in a move that may appear to be a turning point in his power struggle with the pro-Russian government coalition.

KIEV, April 25 - The construction of a new cover over the reactor of the destroyed Chornobyl nuclear power plant will start this summer, President Viktor Yushchenko said.

KIEV, April 25 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko is determined to dismiss the newly elected Parliament if parties fail to create the majority coalition, Oleh Rybachuk, Yushchenko??™s chief of staff, said Tuesday.

KIEV, April 25 ??“ The U.S. will seek support from its allies on Thursday for a plan that would ensure Ukraine??™s quick accession to NATO, the Financial Times reported Tuesday citing a senior NATO diplomat.

KIEV, April 25 ??“ Ukraine??™s sovereign debt prices fell on Tuesday after Fitch Ratings agency had downgraded Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the country??™s largest oil and gas company, following reports of a looming financial crunch.

KIEV, April 23 ??“ The government prevailed in a legal battle with the country??™s two richest businessmen, Viktor Pinchuk and Rinat Akhmetov, insisting the two have last year purchased Kryvorizhstal, the country??™s largest steelmaker, at a fixed tender.

KIEV, April 22 ??“ Lukoil, Russia's largest oil company, agreed on Friday to lower gasoline and diesel fuel prices at its gasoline-filling stations throughout Ukraine, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.

KIEV, April 22 ??“ Ukraine??™s booming exports and central bank interventions over the past three years have made the country??™s currency, the hryvnia, so undervalued against the U.S. dollar that it had started to jeopardize the economy, officials said Friday.

KIEV, April 25 - The Ukrainian government supports a bill that would be twice a year temporarily lifting import duties on petroleum products, Economy Minister Serhiy Teriokhin said.

KYIV, March 23 – Metallurgical enterprises of Mariupol will never operate under Russian occupation, businessman Rinat Akhmetov has said in a commentary to the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal.