KYIV, Feb 22 – Some UAH 1.479 billion, passed to the state within the special confiscation of funds from the criminal organization of ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, have been transferred to the bank account of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine, press secretary of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Larysa Sarhan has reported.

KYIV, Feb 25 – Funds from the preferential customs clearance of cars in the amount of almost UAH 13.6 billion are on the accounts of the Pension Fund, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KYIV, Feb 22 – Problems that concern Ukrainians the most include the war in eastern Ukraine, low salaries and pensions, as well as increased utility tariffs.

KYIV, Feb 23 - Russia has illegally extracted 7.2 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas from Crimea after annexing the peninsula in March 2014, Svitlana Nezhnova, the board director at Chornomornaftogaz, said Friday.

KYIV, Feb. 25 - Ukraine increased to maximum capacity natural gas withdrawals from its underground gas storage facilities following a spell of freezing weather, an official said Sunday.

KYIV, Feb 22 – Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said the size of ‘very significant’ compensation from Russia for violating Ukraine's rights in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait will be determined by the International Tribunal.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – If presidential elections in Ukraine were held next Sunday, incumbent President Petro Poroshenko would be supported by 17.2% of Ukrainian voters, as is seen from findings of a sociological poll presented at the Gorshenin Institute in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault have discussed the internal political conflict in Ukraine and the fight against corruption at a meeting in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – The governmental office for European integration has drawn up and published a report on the implementation of the Ukraine-EU Association agenda for 2015.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko has spoken at the international conference dedicated to the issues relating to HIV/AIDS, poverty and inequality in metropolitan cities in Washington and expressed his support for the initiatives of the conference participants.