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.

KIEV, Feb. 25 - Andriy Kliuyev, a former presidential aide who is said by the new Ukrainian authorities to be on the run with ousted leader Viktor Yanukovych, has been shot in the leg, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing his spokesman.

KIEV, Feb. 25 - Parliament voted on Tuesday to send fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych to the International Criminal Court, while his acting successor expressed concern about "signs of separatism" in Russian-speaking Crimea.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – Ukraine is not planning to increase the price of gas for the population and industry, President Viktor Yanukovych said while addressing the drill men of the Petro Hodovanets jack-up rig (state-run JSC Chornomornaftogaz) during the Dialogue with the Country live television program on Friday.

KIEV, Feb. 25 – The Council of the National Bank of Ukraine has recommended that the central bank's board increase the flexibility of monetary instruments to support government policies.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 25 - The European Union gave Ukraine three months to improve its judicial and election systems and to adopt reforms to qualify for a key free-trade and political association agreement this year.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – The International Monetary Fund's Resident Representative Office in Kiev and the National Bank of Ukraine have refused to confirm acting Finance Ministry Ihor Umansky's statement that an IMF technical mission would arrive in Ukraine soon.

KIEV, Feb. 25 – Investors will be watching closely as Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych seeks to pass a budget, pay about $6 billion in debt this year, and resume a lending program with the International Monetary Fund.

KIEV, Feb. 25 – By one of his first decrees, President Viktor Yanukovych cut his salary by 50% and ordered staff reduced at the presidential office by at least 20%.

KIEV, Feb. 25 – President Viktor Yanukovych will pay his first foreign visit to Brussels on March 1, and only then go to Moscow on March 5, Hanna Herman, a deputy chief of staff, said Thursday.