KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine is fulfilling all its debt obligations despite strained restructuring talks and is not treating its $3 billion debt to Russia differently from its other bonds, Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said, Reuters reported.
KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine's parliament Thursday approved two laws on central bank independence, leaving five more to be passed in order to unlock the next tranche of financial aid from the International Monetary Fund, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.
KIEV, June 16 – Ukraine's Interior Ministry has put the Russian Embassy in Kiev under tighter security after an attack on the building on Saturday, the Kiev police authority said on Monday.
KIEV, June 17 – President Petro Poroshenko held a meeting with Open Society Foundation founder George Soros, at which Soros informed the head of state about the group's initiative to create strategic plan of reforms for Ukraine.
GENEVA, June 18 - Armed separatists in eastern Ukraine have achieved nothing but the creation of a climate of insecurity which is ruining their own region, U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Wednesday.
KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine's prime minister ordered security to be reinforced on the country's gas pipeline network on Wednesday to prevent sabotage after the interior minister said an explosion at one pipeline had been caused by a bomb, Reuters reported.
KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine’s Parliament will vote within the next two days to approve a bill that introduces a state of emergency in the energy sector following Russia’s move to suspend natural gas supplies, an official said Wednesday.
KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine will start imports of European natural gas via Slovakia as soon as September 1, Ukrtransgaz, the state-owned gas shipping company, reported Wednesday.
KIEV, June 18 - President Petro Poroshenko put a pro-Western and business-friendly stamp on his leadership on Wednesday and made peace proposals for the rebellious east involving a unilateral ceasefire by government forces.
