KIEV, Jan. 20 - Ukraine on Wednesday ratcheted up its trade war with Russia in reprisal for Moscow's seeming efforts to slash its westward-leaning neighbor’s economic ties with other former Soviet states, AFP reported.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – Kiev city’s draft budget for 2015 foresees UAH 50 million of projected income from tax imposed on properties other than land plots.

According to the draft decision of Kiev City Council on imposing local taxes and duties, it is proposed that the highest possible property tax rate should be 2%.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – Ukraine's possible accession to the European Union will benefit Europe because the future of Europe is inseparably linked with the future of Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko said.

BERLIN, Jan 21 - Diplomatic progress was made during four-way talks on the Ukraine crisis and an agreement was reached on establishing security zones between pro-Russian fighters and Kiev's forces, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.

KIEV, Jan. 21 - President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Wednesday of sending 9,000 troops to back separatist rebels in the east of his country, and the IMF chief said she backed extra financial help for Kiev as the conflict inflicts severe economic damage, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, Jan. 21 - Russia told European governments on Tuesday to stop meddling in Ukraine's political crisis and said events could be spinning out of control in Kiev after violence that left vehicles burning in the streets, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 21 - Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has broken the EU’s silence on potential sanctions on Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 21 - A new wave of attacks targeting journalists and protest activists swept Kiev spelling out doubts over President Viktor Yanukovych’s commitment for talks to end Ukraine’s deepest political crisis in decades.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – The reduction of prices for imported gas and Russia's opening a credit line will relieve devaluation pressure on the hryvnia, according to Oleksiy Tkachenko, deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine.

NEW YORK, Jan. 22 - Ukrainians living in New York on Wednesday called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council amid escalating violence in Ukraine as the government had used deadly force against protesters.