LONDON, May 18 – Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko has warned creditors that "all options were on the table" as the economic outlook for the war-torn country worsens.
BRUSSELS, May 18 - Russia avoided further diplomatic confrontation with Ukraine and the European Union at three-way trade talks on Monday and did not renew previous demands for Kiev's duty-free deal with the bloc to be put on hold, Reuters reported.
KIEV, May 18 - Ukraine vowed on Monday to show off two Russian soldiers it claimed to have captured while fighting Moscow-backed forces in the separatist east, AFP reported.
KIEV, May 15 – The Ukraine-NATO commission that took place at NATO Headquarters in Brussels has discussed the prospects of creating a consortium to manage Ukraine's gas transport system with the United States and EU, according to Ukraine's Foreign Ministry.
KIEV, May 16 - A fair price for Ukraine to pay for Russian gas is $350-380 per 1,000 cubic meters, which is roughly equivalent to the current gas price in the EU, European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger said in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
KIEV, May 16 – The Constitutional Court has ruled that the country's president to be elected during the early election on May 25 will serve a full five-year term in office.
KIEV, May 17 - Pro-Russian separatist leader Valery Bolotov was detained by Ukrainian border guards on Saturday then freed by armed supporters in a firefight at the checkpoint, a Ukrainian spokesman said.
KIEV, May 16 - The West should impose tougher sanctions on Russia, which is waging a "hidden war" in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's acting Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia said in an interview with German newspaper Die Welt.
KIEV, May 18 – President Viktor Yanukovych warned that he may fire Finance Minister Fedir Yaroshenko if the ministry fails to support Ukraine’s shipbuilding industry through state financing.
KIEV, May 16 – The defense of Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko will appeal to the Court of Appeals against a ruling of Pechersky District Court of Kiev declaring lawful an instruction of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine on the opening of a criminal case against her on gas contracts of 2009.
