KIEV, Aug. 21 - President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday he might announce the dissolution of parliament as early as Sunday - a move that will set up a parliamentary election in Ukraine in late October, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Aug. 21 - President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday he would call on Russian President Vladimir Putin to rein in pro-Russian separatists when the two men meet next week.

KIEV, Aug. 21 – Ukraine will be to blame for any aggravation in Russian-Ukrainian relations in gas supply matters ahead of the upcoming signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, according to Sergei Glazyev, an advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

KIEV, Aug. 21 – The Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will be forced to step up customs procedures for Ukraine and may withdraw from a free trade area with the country if Kiev signs an agreement on association and free trade area with the EU, Russian presidential advisor Sergei Glazyev said.

KIEV, Aug. 21 – Russia eased its trade restrictions against Ukraine hours after a strong warning from the European Union, which had described the development as “unacceptable.”

KIEV, Aug. 20 - The Ukrainian Batkivschyna United Opposition says it is consolidated but does not rule out 'a purge' of its parliamentary candidates in September.

KIEV, Aug. 21 – Ukraine's TVi Channel has said that the pressure on the channel by the authorities continues.

"The Tax Service continues impeding our work. More and more regional providers have been disconnecting TVi Channel from their networks due to censorship by the authorities," the Channel said in a statement on its official Web site on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 21 - Ukrainian prosecutors urged a high court on Tuesday to reject the appeal of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko against her seven-year jail sentence for abuse of office.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – Any admission of guilt by Yulia Tymoshenko that she exceeded her powers when holding Ukrainian-Russian gas talks in 2009 would not be legal grounds for the revision of contracts signed between Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Gazprom, according to lawyers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – Ukraine has agreed the revenue side of its draft state budget for 2012 with the International Monetary Fund, whereas proposals for the expenditure side are currently being discussed, First Deputy Head of Ukraine's Presidential Administration Iryna Akimova said at a briefing in Kiev on Friday.