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.

BRUSSELS, March 21 - The European Commission has stated that the condition set by Russia for Ukraine to create a consortium on the Ukrainian gas transport system – withdrawal from the Energy Community – will jeopardize Ukraine's sovereign interests in energy security.

KIEV, March 21 - Ukrainian citizens are almost evenly divided over the prospects for joining the Customs Union formed by Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan and signing an Association Agreement with the European Union.

KIEV, March 23 – President Viktor Yanukovych assured his Polish and Hungarian counterparts on Friday that it is Ukraine’s foreign policy priority to achieve closer integration with the European Union.

KIEV, March 24 – A state of emergency was declared in parts of Ukraine over the weekend after the country was hit with the heaviest snowfall in more than 100 years, effectively paralyzing its transportation infrastructure.