KIEV, Feb. 17 - Ukraine on Friday came under sharp criticism from human rights groups for deporting 10 Uzbeks reportedly wanted by their government for their involvement in unrest in the city of Andijon in May 2005.

KIEV, Feb. 19 Turkmenistan criticized Ukraine on Sunday for delays in clearing almost $159 mln natural gas debt and warned further delays may undermine a long-term gas supply agreement between the two.

KIEV, Feb. 17 ??“ Western Union, the world??™s largest money transfer company, has lowered tariffs for money transfers to Ukraine from the Czech Republic, Poland, Kazakhstan and Greece, the company said.

WARSAW, Feb. 17 - Ukraine plans to invest more than $2 bln in proceeds from natural gas shipments into modernization of its gas transportation systems, Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov said Thursday.

PIVDENNOUKRAINSK, Jan 17 – Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi continues negotiations on the creation of a security protection zone at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP), but they are going hard because of the different perceptions of the parties on this issue.

KYIV, Jan 17 – The Memorandum of Understanding, signed on Monday by Ukraine and the EU, contains 20 points in four blocks, the progress in the implementation of which will depend on the allocation of the second and subsequent tranche of the $18 billion expanded EU macro-financial assistance, reports said.

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 - The U.S. will send 90 Stryker combat vehicles and an additional 59 Bradley fighting vehicles to Ukraine, in addition to hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, the Pentagon announced on Thursday. It is the latest aid package timed to help Ukraine push back against Russia’s entrenched forward lines.

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 - CIA Director William Burns visited Kyiv last week to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a U.S. official said Thursday, in the latest example of high-level contacts between the U.S. and Ukraine.

KYIV, Jan 18 - Ukraine, in the absence of additional shocks, may pass the second half of 2022 without an urgent conclusion of a new program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Danylo Hetmantsev, the head of the Verkhovna Rada committee on finance, taxation and customs policy, believes.

BERLIN, Jan 18 - Germany signaled on Tuesday that it could halt the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia if Moscow invades Ukraine, and Western nations rallied behind Kyiv over a Russian troop buildup that has stoked fears of war, Reuters reported.