KIEV, March 18 – The list of individuals engaged in the Nadia Savchenko case who may be subjected to personal sanctions (the so-called Savchenko List) may be expanded, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said.

KIEV, March 18 – The deadline for the electoral law in certain districts of Donbas has not been established, German Foreign Office said in an official comment for Germany's international news broadcaster Deutsche (DW).

KIEV, March 17 – At least one million Ukrainians have left the country due to military violence in Donbas and the country faces substantial demographic, social and infrastructure losses amid the emergence of a new Ukrainian civil society.

BRUSSELS, March 17 – European Parliament President Martin Schulz met with President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday and discussed the need to promptly overcome the crisis in Ukraine's government and to continue reforms in the country.

TIRASPOL, March 19 - The Transdniestrian Foreign Ministry issued a travel alert for Ukraine on Wednesday. Citizens were advised "not to visit Ukraine unless the trip was absolutely necessary."

KIEV, March 20 - Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has warned against any hasty steps to switch to visas and the use of international passports with regard to Russia.

KIEV, March 20 - Oleksandr Turchynov, Ukraine's acting president and Parliament speaker, has authorized Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk to sign the political section of Ukraine's Association Agreement with the European Union on March 21.

Turchynov's instruction issued to Yatseniuk was published on the acting president's Web site on March 19.

KIEV, March 20 - Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to destabilize Ukraine's presidential election in May and has been preparing for possible military action in eastern Ukraine, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said.

GENEVA, March 20 - Russia may be preparing a further military incursion to Ukrainian territory, Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Yuriy Klymenko, told U.N. diplomats at a briefing on the human rights situation in Ukraine on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, March 20 - U.S. President Barack Obama raised the stakes in an East-West confrontation over Crimea on Thursday by targeting some of Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest long-time political and business allies with personal sanctions, Reuters reported.