MOSCOW, Oct. 29 – A Russian Emergency Situations Ministry convoy carrying humanitarian aid for residents of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine, which departed Russia's Moscow region on Tuesday, should reach the Rostov region in the early hours of Thursday, says Oleg Voronov, a deputy chief of the Emergency Situations Ministry national crisis management center.

KIEV, Oct. 29 – Ukraine will switch to a single wholesale price of gas for all categories of consumers starting May 2015, reads a draft coalition agreement proposed by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and posted on its Web site on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 29 - The European Union and United Nations condemned plans to hold elections in rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine on Sunday, with the EU explicitly denouncing Moscow's support for the separatists' plans, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - Arseniy Yatseniuk said on Wednesday he expected to stay on as prime minister at the head of a new pro-Europe, reformist government as his party hung on to a slight lead in last Sunday's election with the vote count nearly complete, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 29 - Ukraine and Russia bargained late into the night on Wednesday but European Union officials trying to broker a deal to resume gas supplies to Kiev as winter sets in said there was still no accord to announce, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – The Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, Ukrainian Grain Association, the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and the European Business Association have asked President Viktor Yanukovych to return draft law No. 10222 passed by Parliament on October 16 for revision.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - Jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko launched a hunger strike on Monday to protest against alleged vote-rigging in favor of President Viktor Yanukovych's party in this weekend’s election.

Exit polls and partial results from Sunday's vote showed Yanukovych's Regions Party would, with help from long-time allies, win more than half the seats in the 450-member assembly.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - President Victor Yanukovich's Regions Party was on course on Monday to secure a new parliamentary majority, but international monitors condemned the election as flawed and a step back.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - The government will hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss an unknown flu-like illness that has already killed 30 people in three of the country’s western regions, with thousands potentially infected.

KIEV, Oct. 29 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday began desperately seeking to put international pressure on President Viktor Yushchenko to force him to veto a controversial social spending bill.