KIEV, May 17 – The 62nd Eurovision song contest is most likely to be held in Kiev mainly at the expense of budget funds, co-chairman of the Nash Kray party and former first deputy head of Kiev City State Administration during the UEFA Euro 2012 football championship Oleksandr Mazurchak.

KIEV, May 18 – The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry urged the international community on the day of an anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Crimean Tatars to carry on the sanctions pressure on Russia over the Crimean issue.

KIEV, May 18 – The International Monetary Fund has agreed with Ukraine on the reform policies it must implement for the board to agree in July to dispense a long-delayed third tranche of loans under a $17.5 billion bailout program, the fund said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, May 18 – Negotiations at an EU-Russia-Ukraine ministerial meeting on the trade section of the EU-Ukraine association agreement scheduled for May 18 will be difficult, as the three parties' positions are still significantly different, says Russia's permanent representative at the EU Vladimir Chizhov.

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.