KIEV, March 17 - Ukraine needs more bailout financing than currently promised to help jump-start the embattled nation’s economy, Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said Monday in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

KIEV, March 18 – Ukraine will demonstrate flexibility when discussing the revision of conditions for the repayment of its foreign debt with holders of sovereign bonds, Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said at the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution on Tuesday, Voice of America has reported.

KIEV, March 17 – The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people has confirmed its recognition of Ukraine as a sovereign and independent state within its existing borders and strongly condemned an act of aggression on the part of the Russian Federation and a plan on the annexation of Crimea, considering these actions as a gross violation of international law and destabilizing the existing system of international relations.

KIEV, March 18 – The signature of the economic part of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU has been postponed to avoid negative consequences for the industrial regions in the east of the country, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, March 18 - Ukraine has strengthened frontier defenses with Russia following Moscow's seizure of Crimea but there is no sign of a major troop build-up in a region where some say they would welcome a Russian takeover, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, March 18 - Defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty in Moscow on Tuesday making Crimea part of Russia again, but said he did not plan to seize any other regions of Ukraine.

KIEV, March 15 - President Viktor Yanukovych has instructed the National Bank of Ukraine to consider by the end of March letting foreign issuers with assets in Ukraine trade on the domestic equity market.

KIEV, March 15 – Only international sanctions could make Ukraine return to its European integration path, but they should not be introduced for all citizens of Ukraine, the leader of the UDAR Party, Vitali Klitschko, said at a meeting with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski in Warsaw.

GORKI, March 18 - Ukraine's membership in the Customs Union in the 3+1 format is impossible and the country needs to either ratify all documents or get only observer status in the organization, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

KIEV, March 18 – Opposition groups may unblock the work of Parliament on Tuesday after achieving some progress at a meeting with the pro-government party on Monday, lawmakers said Monday.