KIEV, Feb. 22 - Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a letter to his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko on Friday, urged Ukraine to clear its natural gas debt owed to Gazprom as soon as possible.

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 - NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned on Thursday that a Russian victory over Ukraine would undermine the dissuasive force of the world’s biggest military alliance and that its credibility could cost trillions to restore.

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.