KHARKIV, July 23 - A Ukrainian court on Monday put off until July 31 the hearings in a tax evasion case against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko because she was unable to attend the trial for health reasons.

BRUSSELS, July 24 - The European Union and Ukraine on Monday signed an agreement that makes it easier for some groups of people to obtain visas for traveling to the EU, Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryshchenko said.

KIEV, July 21 – The Prosecutor General's Office has documents confirming that Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko spent nearly $1 million for her personal use and on bribery, acting Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin said.

KIEV, July 22 — Judge Rodion Kireyev on Friday refused to give former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s two new lawyers more time to prepare for a trial over her controversial 2009 natural gas agreement with Russia.

KIEV, July 23 – Ukraine strongly condemned the two terrorist attacks that rocked Norway on Friday, calling them an “obvious threat” to values of European democracy.

KIEV, July 24 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s recent decision to delay shipments of Caspian Sea oil via the Odessa-Brody pipeline to Europe was politically motivated and comes against Ukraine’s national interests, President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday.

KIEV, July 24 – President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday that David Zhvania, once one of his closest allies, may have been involved in the poisoning that nearly killed him in September 2004.

KIEV, July 24 - Ukraine and Vanco Energy, an independent U.S. oil company, have been making slow progress in talks over a production sharing agreement (PSA) for a major offshore oil project, the government admitted Tuesday.

KIEV, July 24 – Russia’s Black Sea Fleet will have to leave its Ukrainian bases in Crimea after a 20-year rental agreement expires in 2017, a top Ukrainian negotiator on the issue said Tuesday.

KIEV, July 24 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko on Saturday praised Ukraine??™s accelerating economic growth this year adding the next government should pursue the same economic policy to achieve sustainable growth.