KIEV, April 22 – Over 1,000 coalminers who came to protest outside the presidential administration's building in downtown Kiev and hand over their demands to the country's leadership broke through police lines on Bankova Street and came close to the building today.

WASHINGTON, April 22 – The United States accused Russia Wednesday of building up its forces along the border with Ukraine, boosting air defense systems in the country and training Ukrainian rebels in the east, AFP reported.

KIEV, April 22 - A Ukrainian court ruling has frozen the assets and property of Odessa oil refinery amid an investigation into alleged massive illegal imports of gasoline, the Internal Affairs Ministry reported Tuesday.

KIEV, April 22 - Ukraine will seek to attract U.S. and European energy companies to modernize and to operate the country’s natural gas transportation system, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said Tuesday.

Yatseniuk made the comments after meeting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Kiev who has come to assure Ukraine in support amid growing fears of armed confrontation with Russia.

WASHINGTON, April 22 - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a telephone call on Tuesday that Washington would impose more sanctions on Russia if tensions did not de-escalate in eastern Ukraine, a senior U.S. official said, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 22 - Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov called on Tuesday for government forces to re-launch an offensive against pro-Russian rebels after a local politician from his own party was found dead with signs of torture.

KIEV, April 19 – The prosecutor's office has decided to suspend the construction of the Catholic Church of St. Francis of Assisi on Zoya Haidai Street (Obolon district) in Kiev because of a conflict between local residents and parishioners, the Television News Service on 1+1 Channel reported.

BRUSSELS, April 19 - The European Union cannot now name the date when a decision can be made on the signing of the Association Agreement with Ukraine, a senior EU official told reporters in Brussels on Friday, ahead of a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, which will be held in Luxembourg on Monday.

KIEV, April 22 - The Public organization Anti-Corruption Council has insisted that state authorities check the accuracy of data in the income declaration of President Viktor Yanukovych for 2012.

KIEV, April 22 – A group of lawmakers has proposed that excise duties on beer be tripled, with the money raised being used to finance healthcare measures and the Okhmatdyt National Specialized Children's Hospital (Kiev).