KIEV, Nov. 23 ??“ Ukraine will accelerate diplomacy within regional groups such as GUAM aimed at promoting democracy and solving some of the most complicated ethnic conflicts in the area, President Viktor Yushchenko said Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 23 ??“ Coal production in Ukraine in 2005 will fall by 3.3% from 2004, to 77.5 mln tons, Coal Industry Minister Viktor Topolov said in Kiev on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 - The United States expressed deep concerns over indications of fraud committed in the Ukrainian presidential election and urged the authorities not to certify results until investigations of organized fraud are resolved.

KIEV, Nov. 22 - Tensions rose sharply in Ukraine on Monday after the Central Electoral Committee reported a vote counting tally that the opposition says has been falsified in favor of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

KIEV, Nov. 22 - U.S. President George W. Bush's special envoy Monday condemned Ukraine's presidential election as a concerted fraud by the authorities and urged President Leonid Kuchma to change the situation before it was too late.

KYIV, Oct 22 - A missile strike on a mail depot in the eastern city of Kharkiv killed six people, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, as Ukraine reported a record number of bomb attacks in the southern Kherson region.

KYIV, Oct 21 – After the end of the war, Ukraine's goal is to make a leap, "which can be described as an economic miracle," for which it is necessary to raise $70-80 billion in private investment annually, First Deputy Prime Minister, Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko has said.

KYIV, Oct 21 – Building on the results of the work of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team with representatives of Ukraine in Vienna on October 17-20, the IMF mission announced productive discussions and advancing work in the coming weeks to follow up on the Kyiv authorities' request for Program Monitoring with Board Involvement (PMB).

KYIV, Oct 23 - Russia’s defense chief alleged Sunday that Ukraine was preparing a “provocation” involving a radioactive device, a stark claim that was strongly rejected by U.S., British and Ukrainian officials amid soaring tensions as Moscow struggles to stem Ukrainian advances in the south.

KYIV, Oct 21 – President Volodymyr Zelensky calls for an international observation mission to be sent to Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP).

"We have information that Russian terrorists have mined the dam and units of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. This is one of the large power facilities. The dam of this hydroelectric power plant holds a volume of about 18 million cubic meters of water. If Russian terrorists blow up this dam, more than 80 settlements, including Kherson, could be hit by rapid flooding," he said on Thursday, in an address via video link to EU leaders meeting.