KIEV, July 29 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko promised on Tuesday that "as soon as the crisis begins to subside," her government would "definitely" resume paying compensation to Ukrainians for savings in the former Soviet Sberbank and Gosstrakh insurance company that were depreciated during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

KIEV, July 29 – The death toll from storms and floods in western Ukraine rose to 30 people, including six children, over the past three days, the Emergency Situations Ministry reported Tuesday.

KIEV, July 29 – President Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday asked the State Property Fund to drop its plan to file a lawsuit against Arcelor Mittal and called for negotiations to settle the dispute over Ukrainian assets.

KIEV, July 29 – The government on Tuesday submitted to Parliament amendments to the 2008 budget seeking to increase emergency funding to western regions that suffered from the worst floods in 100 years.

NOVODNISTROVSK, Chernivtsi region, July 27 – The launch of the first storage pump at the Dniester pump-storage plant has been postponed from late 2007 until 2008 due to problems with financing the project in the first half of the year.

KIEV, July 27 – The Ukrainian government has ordered the State Property Fund to draft new conditions for the privatization of Odessa port-side plant in order to make the tender to sell the plant as open as possible, according to First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mykola Azarov.

KIEV, July 27 - Ukraine will not receive a $500 million loan from the World Bank as part of the second loan for political development project this year owing to the dissolution of Parliament, Economics Minister Anatoliy Kinakh said at a ministry meeting on Friday.

MOSCOW, July 27 – Russia’s Black Sea Fleet will stay in Ukraine beyond May 2017 when its 20-year lease agreement expires, Vladimir Masorin, the chief commander of the Russian naval forces, said Friday.

KYIV, June 29 – The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on additional payments to military servicemen, MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a member of the Holos parliamentary faction, has said.

KYIV, June 29 – The State Budget of Ukraine on Thursday received grant funds in the amount of $1.215 billion through the World Bank's Multi-Donor Trust Fund: $1.2 billion from the United States and $15 million from Finland.