KIEV, Feb. 24 - Ukrainian lawmakers have been boycotting the work of the standing energy committee in Parliament, seeking dismissal of committee chairman Andriy Kliuyev, according to Oleksandr Hudyma, a committee member.

KIEV, Feb. 23 ??“ A Kiev court ruled Wednesday to freeze assets of FC Dynamo Kyiv, Ukraine??™s wealthiest and internationally best known soccer club, as pressure builds up on loyalists of former President Leonid Kuchma.

STRASBOURG, Feb. 23 ??“ Ukraine will seek to obtain market economy status from the European Union within the next four months and by November be ready to join the World Trade Organization, President Viktor Yushchenko said.

BRUSSELS, Jan 23 – The European Union is celebrating progress in implementing the plan to introduce a tax on profits from frozen assets of the Russian Federation, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing sources.

KYIV, Jan 23 – Today, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, together with the Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine, Kuninori Matsuda, and the Head of the EU Humanitarian Aid in Ukraine, Claudia Amaral, visited families and locations in Kyiv region to see the results of house repairs and new solutions implemented for people who have had their homes damaged or destroyed in the war.

BRUSSELS, Jan 23 – U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is convinced that a sovereign and secure Ukraine is crucial for global security, and therefore he called on the participants of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, the so-called Ramstein group, to continue to provide Ukraine with even more assistance.

KYIV, Jan 22 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, called on international investors to become "architects of the success of the new Ukraine."

KYIV, Jan 23 - Ukraine’s security council said on Thursday it was awaiting a decision on whether Tehran will hand over black boxes of the Ukrainian airliner it downed after an Iranian team presents its report to authorities in Tehran, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Jan 23 - Apple executive Lisa Jackson met with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko at Davos, two months after Apple controversially altered two apps to display annexed Crimea as part of Russia, Insider reported Thursday.

KYIV, Jan 24 - A Ukrainian court on Thursday sentenced former president Viktor Yanukovych in absentia to 13 years in jail on treason charges, a judge said, saying his conduct in office had opened the door to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and conflict in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported.