KIEV, Feb. 18 – Mass media reports that flights over Crimea will be resumed are erroneous, Ukraine's Infrastructure Ministry said.

KIEV, Feb. 18 - The Samopomich party faction's pullout from Ukraine's governing coalition will leave the parliamentary majority with only two factions - Petro Poroshenko Bloc and [Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk] People's Front - with a total number of 217 MPs.

KIEV, Feb. 18 - The parliamentary and government crisis must not impede the Ukrainian people's advancement into the European Union, President Petro Poroshenko said at a meeting with Euromaidan activists.

KIEV, Feb. 18 - The State Border Committee of Belarus said, citing Ukrainian border guards, that heavy motor trucks with Russian registration plates will not be allowed into the Ukrainian territory starting from 12:00 midnight on February 18, in compliance with an act adopted by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers.

BERLIN, Feb. 21 - The French and German foreign ministers, who head to Kiev for talks on Monday, have urged Ukraine to push forward with reforms in the spirit of the movement that ousted Russian-backed president Viktor Yanukovych two years ago, AFP reported.

KIEV, Feb. 19 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expects the European Union to make a decision on granting visa-free access to the EU to Ukrainian citizens at an Eastern Partnership summit in Riga in May, so that it could be put into practice by the end of 2015.

KIEV, Feb. 19 - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund plans to consider a new financing program (Extended Fund Facility, EFF) for Ukraine worth $17.5 billion in late February – early March, Director of IMF Communications Department Gerry Rice said.

KIEV, Feb. 19 - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko and European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Johannes Hahn are to discuss ratification of an association agreement between Kiev and the European Union.

KIEV, Feb. 20 – European Council President Donald Tusk said that he is holding consultations with EU leaders due to the escalation of the crisis in eastern Ukraine.

KHARKIV, Feb. 22 – Ukraine said on Sunday it feared unrest could spread beyond territory held by pro-Russian separatists, after an explosion killed two people at a memorial rally in an eastern city far from the front line, Reuters reported.