KIEV, Feb. 18 - Police battled their way into Kiev's Independence Square, center of three months of protests against President Viktor Yanukovych, but demonstrators, some armed with clubs and wearing helmets and body armor, tried to stand their ground.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – Regions Party MP Oleksandr Onyschenko has become the owner of FC Arsenal Kiev, the MP's press service reported.

KIEV, Feb. 18 - Ukraine is showcasing the Oplot tank, the new BTR-4MV armored personnel carrier and a number of other new military products at the IDEX 2013 international exhibition of defense weapons, technologies and systems in Abu Dhabi (the United Arab Emirates), the Foreign Ministry reported.

KIEV, Feb. 18 – The Batkivschyna parliamentary faction will support Vitali Klitschko as a single opposition candidate for Kiev mayor if Klitschko confirms his intention to run for election, said Mykola Tomenko one of the leaders of the Batkivschyna faction and head of Parliament’s Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information.

KIEV, Feb. 18 – Jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko officially asked prison authorities to take her to a murder trial in Kiev on Tuesday as court prepared to question a key witness.

DONETSK, Feb. 18 – MP Rinat Akhmetov said he is confident that Ukraine’s Higher Administrative Court will reject Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's appeal for the cancellation of the result of Ukraine's presidential election.

KIEV, Feb. 19 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will show up in court Friday to press her claim that the opposition leader stole the presidential election, a senior official said Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 19 – The Ukrainian authorities and the International Monetary Fund have different ideas about whether the country will be able to pay its foreign debts this year.

KIEV, Feb. 16 -- Fitch Ratings has downgraded the long-term foreign and local currency ratings of the cities of Kiev, Odessa and Kharkiv.

The outlooks for the long-term foreign and local currency ratings are negative, Fitch said.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will provide Ukraine with a EUR135 million grant for the Chernobyl Shelter Fund and the Nuclear Safety Account, which were opened to tackle the aftermath of the disaster at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's fourth reactor in 1986.