KIEV, Aug. 18 – There is no alternative to incumbent Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk now Yuriy Lutsenko leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction in Ukraine's Parliament, said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - Ukraine's pro-Western leadership and Russia traded blame on Tuesday for a sharp escalation in violence that threatened to see all-out warfare return to the former Soviet nation's separatist east, AFP reported.

KIEV. Aug 17 – From mid-April 2014 to July 27, 2015, fighting between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Russian backed armed groups in eastern Ukraine has claimed the lives of 6,832 people (military personnel and civilians), and 17,087 have been injured.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has urged the European Union and NATO to provide Kiev with military assistance in fighting illegal armed formations in the country's east, Deutsche Welle reports.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – It is necessary to conduct a regrouping of the forces involved in the anti-terrorist operation to continue offensive actions in the east, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – The European Union is ready to assist Ukraine in providing aid to residents in eastern Ukrainian territories liberated during the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) and internally displaced persons (IDP), Director of the European Commission's Humanitarian and Civil Protection Operations Jean-Louis de Brouwer said at a meeting with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - Ukraine will soon start building a liquefied natural gas terminal near Odessa to reduce dependence on imports of Russian gas, Oleksandr Turchynov, the speaker of Parliament, said Monday.

The $1 billion project is supposed to use a floating platform to begin LNG imports before expanding the project on-shore.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - Work at four enterprises of Metinvest Group in Yenakiyeve and Hartsyzsk in Donetsk region, the Yenakiyeve Iron and Steel Works, Yenakiyeve Coke and Chemicals Plant, Khartsyzsk Pipe Plant and remaining de-energized Avdiyivka Coke and Chemicals Plant, were halted as a result of powerful shell attacks.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Under the guise of humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Russia wants to create a corridor to supply terrorists with tanks, multiple rocket launchers and weapons, Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - Dozens of people, including women and children, were killed as they fled fighting in eastern Ukraine on Monday when their convoy of buses was hit by rocket fire, a military spokesman said.