KIEV, Dec. 18 - President Viktor Yushchenko is alarmed with the quick weakening of the hryvnia and is drawing a plan of action to improve the situation on the currency market, Roman Zhukovsky, the head of the chief social and economic development service at the presidential secretariat, said at a briefing on Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 18 - Ukraine will hold talks with the European Union Thursday over Russian natural gas supplies amid signs that negotiations between Kiev and Moscow have been making slow progress, President Viktor Yushchenko’s office reported Thursday.

KIEV, Dec. 18 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Thursday accused the National Bank of Ukraine, some commercial banks and the office of President Viktor Yushchenko of running a concerted speculative attack on the hryvnia for their own profit.

KIEV, Dec. 16 – President Viktor Yushchenko said, citing “experts,” that he predicts that Ukraine's gross domestic product will fall by 7% to 10% in the first quarter of 2009.

KIEV, Dec. 18 – A rump session of Parliament on Tuesday chose Yulia Tymoshenko as Ukraine’s prime minister and named a government that favors the country's winning NATO and EU membership.

SEOUL, Dec. 18 - The leaders of South Korea and Ukraine agreed Monday to boost cooperation in space technology and defense, The Associated Press reported citing a joint statement said.

KIEV, Dec. 18 ??“ Ukraine has been rapidly drifting towards a major political clash on Monday after the government had openly challenged constitutional powers of President Viktor Yushchenko by refusing to dismiss seven top police officials.

KIEV, Dec. 17 - Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov will lead President Viktor Yushchenko's group for crucial general election in March 2006 in a vote that will shape the government for the next five years.

KIEV, Dec. 16 ??“ Ukraine plans to sign a new contract for designing and construction of a new safe confinement Shelter at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the first quarter of 2006.

KIEV, Dec. 17 - Ukrainian officials on Saturday considered intensifying measures to contain an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu affecting more than a dozen villages in the Crimea peninsula, Reuters reported.