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.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – The Ukrainian government on Monday tabled a package of bills in Parliament in addition to a bill of amendments to the national budget for 2015 whose adoption is a precondition for the International Monetary Fund to give Ukraine a loan under a new Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday additional sanctions against Russia are "teed up" should events in eastern Ukraine warrant them, and he suggested a decision may come soon, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 25 - Just as a truce in the east took hold on Wednesday with no combat fatalities reported, the hrynia, Ukraine's currency, tanked after the National Bank of Ukraine unexpectedly banned most currency trading and then abruptly reversed course.

KIEV, Feb. 25 - The International Monetary Fund is likely to send a technical support team to Ukraine soon in order to assist Kiev after its president was toppled by violent street protests over the weekend, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday.