KIEV, Sept. 26 - The Ukrainian government has approved and submitted proposals on personal economic and other restrictive measures against 209 legal entities and over 1,000 individuals supportive of Russian aggression against Ukraine for the consideration of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).

KIEV, Sept. 29 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry on July 22-29 boosted purchases of securities by UAH 22.44 billion, to UAH 96.61 billion, in exchange for government domestic loan bonds, the State Treasury Service reported on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 27 - FIFA’s decision to force Ukraine to play their next home 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match against Poland without spectators has caused outrage among the country’s supporters.

KIEV, Sept. 26 – Ukraine, on the road to diversifying energy supplies, should more actively work on the reform of the energy sector, the development of gas production, and the creation of an enabling environment for investors, said Regions Party MP Anatoliy Kinakh, first deputy chairman of Parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday denounced her trial over alleged abuse of office as a "political lynching,” while European leaders urged Ukraine to observe the rules of democracy.

KIEV, Sept. 29 — Hundreds of people gathered in the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday to mark the 69th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of tens of thousands of Jews.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s push to sell a major Odessa chemical company ended in fiasco Tuesday, forcing the government to cancel the privatization amid allegations of “collusion” among bidders.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Lawmakers from four of the Ukrainian parliament's five factions have proposed a ban on any advertising and promoting of the sale of tobacco, including through event sponsorship, the advertising of tobacco-related trademarks of goods and services, and other subjects of intellectual property rights under which tobacco articles are produced.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Ukraine hopes to get the Fourth Development Policy Loan from the World Bank by the end of this year, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.

"We appreciate the dynamics of the preparations for getting the Fourth Development Policy Loan and hope that this process will be successful, and that we will be able to get the 4th loan by the end of this year," Tymoshenko said at a meeting with World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Philippe Le Houerou.

KIEV, Sept.29 – President Viktor Yushchenko will make visits to Britain and Italy early in October, according to Ihor Dolhov, the head of the main service for foreign policies of the presidential secretariat.

On Oct. 6, Yushchenko will be on a visit to Britain, Dolhov said.

Yushchenko is scheduled to meet with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband.