KIEV, July 22 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said she is expecting to see deflation in July and an accelerated GDP growth by the end of this year.

All but two Ukrainian regions registered significant deflation in the first 20 days of July, she said at a meeting of the council of investors at the Cabinet of Ministers on Tuesday.

LONDON, July 23 - UEFA may switch the matches of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship from Ukraine to Germany, according to a report in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

KIEV, July 23 - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Wednesday she had reached an agreement with Russia's Gazprom on a special formula to set prices for gas deliveries in 2009, but did not give details.

KIEV, July 19 - Emergencies Minister Nestor Shufrych has praised the results of the latest meeting of the Donor Assembly of the EBRD's Nuclear Safety Account and the Assembly of Contributors to the Chernobyl Shelter Fund.

KIEV, July 23 - Internal Affairs Minister Vasyl Tsushko, who was hospitalized in Germany for the past eight weeks for a heart problem treatment, resumed his duties on Monday, the ministry reported.

KIEV, July 23 - President Viktor Yushchenko ordered the government to speed up implementation of Kyoto Protocol mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Yushchenko’s press service reported Monday.

KIEV, July 23 – A new appeal from 46 lawmakers seeking to nullify President Viktor Yushchenko’s decree scheduling the Sept. 30 snap election was submitted to the Constitutional Court on Monday, the court reported.

KIEV, July 21 ??“ Leaders of Ukraine and Georgia, the two major critics of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a Russia-led loose alliance of former Soviet Union nations, skipped an informal CIS summit in Moscow Saturday.

KIEV, July 22 ??“ A confrontation between President Viktor Yushchenko and the pro-Russian coalition in Parliament was set to escalate sharply on Monday as deadline approaches when the president gets the power to dismiss the legislature.

BRUSSELS, June 21 – The Vice-President of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, has confirmed that the first payment of EUR 1.5 billion from windfall revenue from frozen Russian assets will be provided to Ukraine "before summer break."