KIEV, June 22 – Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko will visit Italy on Wednesday, June 23, to discuss issues of gas transit through Ukraine to Europe, ministry spokesman Oleh Voloshyn, said at a press briefing in Kiev on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS, June 22 – The European Commission is studying ways to bring additional volumes of Russian gas through Ukraine in connection with Belarus' plans to cut gas transit through its territory, European Commission energy spokeswoman Marlene Holzner said in Brussels on Tuesday.

KIEV, June 22 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers on Monday approved the blueprints and project documentation for the Olympiysky national sports complex, which foresee the financing of all construction and reconstruction services to the tune of UAH2.114 billion, Family, Youth and Sports Minister Yuriy Pavlenko told reporters.

KIEV, June 22 – A shipment of weapons seized in Nigeria has nothing to do with state arms exporter Ukrspetsexport or Ukraine, the secretariat of the Ukrainian president said.

"The military cargo arrested in Nigeria has nothing to do with Ukrspetsexport or Ukraine," Presidential Press Secretary Iryna Vannykova said at a briefing on Monday.

KIEV, June 24 – Ukraine is more stable than Russia, according to the Failed States Index prepared jointly by the Fund for Peace and the magazine Foreign Policy, Radio Svoboda, the Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty, has reported.

MOSCOW, June 24 - Russia's parliament on Thursday is likely to approve former health minister Mikhail Zurabov as ambassador to Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing local news agencies.

Zurabov will replace Viktor Chernomyrdin who was dismissed this month after 8 years as ambassador.

KIEV, June 24 - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said the country will pay on time for Russian natural gas imports in June even though gas imports have increased, the government’s press service reported Thursday.

KIEV, June 24 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who has been struggling to contain Ukraine’s economic crisis, would most likely lose the presidential election to both of her biggest rivals in the runoff, an opinion poll showed Wednesday.

KIEV, June 24 – Ukraine said Tuesday it had broken off talks with the Taiwanese firm renovating the stadium due to host the final of Euro 2012 and was reopening a competition to find a replacement.

LISBON, June 24 - Portugal Tuesday signed an agreement with Ukraine over defense cooperation, presented as firm backing for Kiev's North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Union membership aspirations, AFP reported.