KYIV, June 24 - Masked assailants have attacked a Roma camp in western Ukraine, killing one person and injuring four others including a child, police said Sunday.

KYIV, June 22 – President Petro Poroshenko will join a meeting of leaders of NATO countries later this year after Hungary has lifted its boycott of Ukraine’s relations with the alliance following talks over a language dispute.

KIEV, June 24 – Secretary of the National Defense and Security Council (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov has noted the necessity of ensuring national defense requirements for modern types of armaments and military equipment, as well as the allocation of money for military hardware from the defense budget.

KIEV, June 24 – The ad-hoc committee of holders of sovereign debt of Ukraine, and holders of debt issued by all state-owned enterprises of Ukraine says it disagrees that the International Monetary Fund's debt restructuring criteria provide the best framework to approach the current situation.

KIEV, June 24 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has initiated an experiment on transferring certain customs offices to the management of specialized foreign companies.

BRUSSELS, June 24 - Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission will hold three-way talks in Vienna at the end of the month to seek a new gas accord for Kiev, an EU source said, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, June 24 - A ceasefire is likely to collapse in east Ukraine and Russia could be drawn into a "big war" to cleanse the "sore on its borders", the former leader of the region's pro-Russian separatists said, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 23 – The European Council on Monday finalized the technical preparations for the signature of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine reported.

KIEV, June 24 - Ukraine's president warned Tuesday that he may terminate his weeklong cease-fire early after rebels downed a military helicopter, while Russia urged the Kiev leadership to extend the truce and launch talks with the rebels.

KIEV, June 22 – The Regions Party faction has predicted that the law on wealth tax could be adopted by the end of parliament's present session.