KIEV, July 19 - Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence to cover up their guilt in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner that has accelerated a showdown between the Kremlin and Western powers, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, July 20 - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as international horror deepened over the fate of the victims' remains, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 20 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that it is necessary to ensure that the state and the regions, as well as private food companies, create the largest possible stocks of grain for the country.

KIEV, July 20 – Vasyl Volha, the head of the State Commission for the Regulation of Financial Services Markets and leader of the Union of Leftist Forces who was detained on July 19, is suspected of accepting a $500,000 bribe, the Segodnya newspaper reported, citing its own sources.

KIEV, July 20 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny is on a massive domestic borrowing spree trying to raise money to pay for imports of Russian natural gas in July, the company reported Wednesday.

KIEV, July 20 – Ukraine must stop relying on external borrowing as looming debt crises in the European Union and in the United States may set off another wave of global financial turbulence, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Wednesday.

KIEV, July 20 - The government is to issue UAH 16.4 billion in domestic loan bonds to repay delayed value-added tax refunds for 2009, said Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko.

KIEV, July 20 – The Ukrainian government expects to receive at least $3 billion from the International Monetary Fund this year, twice as much as was earlier expected, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Tuesday.

KIEV, July 20 – An international media watchdog said Tuesday it was “absolutely unacceptable” for the chief of Ukraine’s SBU security service to also lead and command a major television group in the country.

KIEV, July 20 - Ukraine and Libya will go ahead to create a joint venture that would build a new oil refinery in Ukraine with participation of Libyan investors, the government press service reported Monday.