KIEV, Jan. 25 – Teams of security service and military intelligence agents along with financial fraud investigators swarmed on Ukraine’s foreign ministry in a major effort apparently ordered by President Viktor Yanukovych, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 25 – An unidentified man died under unclear circumstances at the same Kiev prison where Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko had been kept for five months before her transfer to another prison last month.

DONETSK, Jan. 25 – The explosions in Makiyivka are in no way related to the checks conducted by the Chief Audit Department of Ukraine at the state-run enterprise Makiivuhillia, first deputy head of Donetsk Regional Administration Serhiy Derhunov said.

KIEV, Jan. 25 – At least one Ukrainian national, Hanna Mashutina, 29, on Tuesday was reported among the victims of the apparent massive terrorist strike at Moscow airport Domodedovo on Monday.

KIEV, Jan. 25 – Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the largest opposition party in Ukraine, on Tuesday was denied by the authorities a request to attend a meeting with European politicians in Brussels next month.

KIEV, Jan. 25 – The opposition Regions Party will seek to call an emergency session of Parliament Thursday to dismiss Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko and to amend presidential election law to make sure the vote cannot be cancelled.

KIEV, Jan. 25 – Tensions between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych rose sharply on Monday after their loyalists each tried to seize control over a company printing ballots for the runoff election.

KIEV, Jan. 22 – Sergiy Tyhypko, who came third in the first round of Ukraine's presidential election, has said he does not rule out that he could consider an offer to take up the post of prime minister.

KIEV, Jan. 22 - Ukrainian values and democracy in the country will come under threat no matter who wins the presidential election runoff between Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yanukovych on February 7, according to utgoing President Viktor Yushchenko has said.

KIEV, Jan. 23 – Ukraine and Romania will carry out a ruling of the United Nation's International Court of Justice on the delimitation of the continental shelf in the Black Sea, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko and Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu said after talks between the two in Kiev on Friday.