KIEV, May 20 - The Prosecutor General’s Office said Tuesday it had suspended the controversial decision by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s government canceling offshore oil exploration license for U.S. oil company Vanco Energy.

KIEV, May 20 – President Viktor Yushchenko, who has been opposing the rapid appreciation of the hryvnia as a means of fighting inflation, met the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine for a “conversation.”

KIEV, May 20 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko??™s top security body on Friday postponed its crucial meeting for several days to give Ukrainian parties more time to find a compromise for ending severe political crisis.

KIEV, May 18 ??“ The Ukrainian government instructed the Fuel and Energy Ministry to draft a price forecast for natural gas to be imported to Ukraine in 2008 in order to calculate the expenditures of the 2008 state budget.

KHARKIV, April 20 – Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov has discussed the issue of restoring the city after the end of the war waged by the Russian Federation by British architect and designer of Apple Park Norman Foster, the press service of the City Council has reported.

KYIV, April 20 – Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered major threats to global food and nutrition security, and if food prices stay this high for a year, global poverty could go up by more than 100 million, World Bank Group President David Malpass said at the U.S. Treasury's event on "Tackling Food Insecurity: The Challenge And Call To Action."

KYIV, April 20 – The Ministry of Finance expects a fall in Ukraine's GDP in 2022 ranging from 35% to 50%, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said.

There may be a fall from 35% to 50% in the economy this year if we take one-year outlook. The National Bank announced 41% [a fall in GDP in 2022]," he said in an interview with the Orestokratia project.

WASHINGTON, April 20 - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Ukraine’s Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko walked out of a Group of 20 meeting Wednesday as Russia’s representative started talking, the Associated Press reported.

KYIV, April 20 - Russian forces tightened the noose around the defenders holed up Wednesday in a mammoth steel plant that represented the last known Ukrainian stronghold in Mariupol, as a fighter apparently on the inside pleaded on a video for help: “We may have only a few days or hours left.”

KYIV, April 19 – The Ministry of Finance is counting on the completion of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in July and the allocation of a tranche in September this year, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko has said.