MOSCOW, March 24 – Russia will not receive a $3 billion bond payout owed by Ukraine this year, according to the International Monetary Fund projections underpinning Kiev's new bailout, according to the Financial Times.

KIEV, March 24 – The 70th anniversary of the end of World War II will continue to be commemorated on May 9 this year, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Culture Minister Vyacheslav Kyrylenko said.

WASHINGTON, March 24 – The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on Monday night asking President Obama to send lethal arms to Ukraine, media said.

LONDON, March 24 - Ukraine expects to start discussions with an ad hoc creditor committee by Monday or Tuesday next week, Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 24 – President Petro Poroshenko, in a surprise move on Tuesday, accepted the resignation of Ihor Kolomoyskiy as the governor of Dnipropetrovsk region.

KIEV, March 21 - Ukraine's Constitutional Court has ruled unconstitutional a resolution by the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on the declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol of March 11, 2014.

MOSCOW, March 21 - The so-called Kharkiv agreements with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych shall be denounced, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Russian Security Council.

SIMFEROPOL, March 24 - Ukrainian troops and their families began evacuating from Crimea on Monday, as Kiev effectively acknowledged defeat by Russian forces who stormed one of the last of their remaining bases on the peninsula, Reuters reported.

NEW YORK, March 24 - Ukraine has circulated a draft resolution to the U.N. General Assembly that would declare invalid Crimea's recent referendum calling for annexation to Russia, a document that echoes a text Moscow vetoed earlier this month in the Security Council.

THE HAGUE, March 24 - U.S. President Barack Obama and major industrialized allies warned Russia on Monday it faced damaging economic sanctions if President Vladimir Putin takes further action to destabilize Ukraine following the seizure of Crimea.