KIEV, March 23 ??“ Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Wednesday she expected lawmakers to approve 2005 budget amendments Thursday despite remarks from Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn indicating that the final approval may not come until next week.

KIEV, March 23 - Ukraine and Turkmenistan agreed Wednesday to step up efforts in courting Russia to join a consortium aimed at building a separate natural gas pipeline enabling massive gas exports from Turkmenistan to Europe.

KIEV, March 24 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko has denied reports of the alleged failure of talks with Turkmenistan on gas supplies to Ukraine.

KYIV, Feb 24 - In three years of full-scale invasion, Russia has carried out more than 30 massive complex attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities, the total damage from which amounts to billions of dollars.

KYIV, Feb 24 – Norway will allocate EUR 3.5 billion in military aid to Ukraine in 2025, EUR 1 billion for humanitarian support, EUR 300 million for energy, and another EUR 300 million for industrial development, said Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

KYIV, Feb 24 – A peace agreement in Ukraine must respect Ukraine's borders and right to self-determination, and Europe must urgently step up efforts to ensure its own security, says a joint statement by the foreign ministers of eight Nordic countries (N8): Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway.

KYIV, Feb 24 – U.S. Chargé d’Affaires ad interim to the UN Dorothy Camille Shea stated the impossibility of supporting the Ukrainian resolution on de-escalation of the situation in Ukraine, citing the need for the earliest possible establishment of peace between Ukraine and Russia.

KYIV, Feb 24 – Ukraine on Monday marked the bleakest anniversary yet of its war against the Russia invasion, with the country’s forces under severe pressure on the battlefield and U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration apparently embracing the Kremlin in a reversal of American policy.

KYIV, Feb 24 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has decided to open a special account to raise funds for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the details have been made public on the website of the central bank, Governor of the NBU Kyrylo Shevchenko has said.

KYIV, Feb 24 - According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian forces have seized the Chornobyl nuclear reactor in northern Ukraine, where the world’s worst nuclear disaster took place in 1986 — and where vast reserves of dangerous nuclear waste remain entombed.