KIEV, Feb. 19 - Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine on Thursday despite European efforts to resurrect a stillborn ceasefire, a day after pro-Russian separatists spurned the truce by forcing thousands of government troops out of a strategic town, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – Counterfeit software usage in government agencies dropped from 40% to 33% in 2013, Oleksiy Ardanov, acting Chief of the Copyright and Related Rights Division of the State Intellectual Property Service, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 19 - The Kiev metro will not open on Wednesday because of what the authorities are calling a “persisting terror attack threat."

On the other hand, the continued closure is widely viewed as a government measure to limit protestor access to the city.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 19 - The European Investment Bank said on Wednesday it had frozen its activities in Ukraine after at least 26 people died in the worst violence since the former Soviet republic gained independence.

KIEV, Feb. 19 - The European Union, which just three months ago hoped for a historic new alliance with Ukraine, is likely to call on Thursday for sanctions on Ukrainian officials who ordered a crackdown that killed at least 26 protesters.

KIEV, Feb. 19 - President Viktor Yanukovych said he reached agreement with opposition leaders on a "truce" to halt fighting that has killed 26 people, even as the United States stepped up pressure by imposing travel bans on 20 senior Ukrainian officials.

KIEV, Feb. 18 – Air Koryo, North Korea's national airline, has added to its fleet the first of two new Ukrainian-Russian An-148 regional jets.

The first An-148-100, which was assembled at Antonov State Enterprise in cooperation with Voronezh Aircraft Production Association (VASO, Russia), was sent to North Korea in early February under a contract signed in July 2010, an informed source in Ukraine's aviation industry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 19 – The largest number of residents of Kiev would vote for UDAR Party leader Vitali Klitschko in a mayoral election if he were nominated as a single candidate from the UDAR, Batkivschyna and Svoboda parties, according to a poll conducted by the Razumkov Center.

KIEV, Feb. 19 - Ukraine insisted Tuesday that a formal agreement covering energy, trade, judicial and human rights norms tying the ex-Communist country to the EU will be signed by November "at the latest."

KIEV, Feb. 16 – The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a bill on the introduction of biometric passports for traveling abroad, which will contain forefinger prints, Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych said.