KIEV, June 20 – The creation of a company-operator of the Ukrainian gas transport system and underground storage facilities with the attraction of gas transport companies from member countries of the European Union and the United States will allow not only the modernization of the country's gas transport system and increase its capitalization, but also prevent the construction of bypass pipelines, according to Ukraine's prime minister.

KIEV, June 20 - According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 38,000 residents of the eastern regions of Ukraine and Crimea have left those regions since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine.

LONDON, June 23 - Russia's aggressive policy towards Ukraine undermines international order and poses a threat to NATO allies, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.

KIEV, June 23 - Former presidents Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko have written an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin urging him to to stop his aggression against Ukraine.

KIEV, June 23 - President Petro Poroshenko is urging people in the eastern regions to support his peace plan and settle issues through talks, the presidential press service reports.

KIEV, June 23 - Ukraine may resume talks with Russia in July over natural gas supplies, Andriy Kobolev, the head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said Monday.

“The talks may resume in July,” Kobolev said at a press conference.

WASHINGTON, June 23 - U.S. President Barack Obama urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to support peace in Ukraine and said Moscow would face further "costs" if it did not take steps to reduce tensions in the country, the White House said on Monday, Reuters reported.

DONETSK, June 23 - Separatist leaders in two main areas of Ukraine's east have agreed to observe a ceasefire with Ukrainian forces until June 27, one of them, Alexander Boroday, said on Monday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 23 – President Viktor Yanukovych has asked the business community for a weather forecast.

KIEV, June 23 – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will arrive in Ukraine on Saturday for meetings with Ukrainian leaders, a Russian diplomat reported Thursday.

The meetings, with President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, will take place at government resorts in Crimea, Vsevolod Loskutov, a senior Russian diplomat at the embassy in Kiev, said.