KIEV, April 29 - Ukrainian fire fighters have contained a large forest fire that threatened to spread toward the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant and radiation levels in the area are normal, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 29 – Former Ukrainian officials have taken at least $32 billion to Russia, acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky said in an interview with Financial Times.

BRUSSELS, April 29 – Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan has agreed to the holding in Warsaw on May 2 of a trilateral meeting with the European Union and Russia on the gas problem, the press office of EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger reported.

BRUSSELS, April 29 - The European Union imposed asset freezes and travel bans on 15 Russians and Ukrainians, including a Russian deputy prime minister, Dmitry Kozak, over Moscow's action in Ukraine, but steered clear of any sanctions on business leaders, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, April 29 - NATO has seen no sign that tens of thousands of Russian troops are withdrawing from close to the Ukraine border, a NATO official said on Tuesday, despite a Russian statement that the troops had returned to their permanent positions.

KIEV, April 29 - The self-declared mayor of a separatist-held town in eastern Ukraine said on Tuesday he would discuss the release of detained military observers with the West only if the European Union dropped sanctions against rebel leaders, Reuters reported.

LUHANSK, April 29 - Hundreds of pro-Moscow separatists stormed government buildings in one of Ukraine's provincial capitals on Tuesday and fired on police holed up in a regional headquarters, a major escalation of their revolt despite new Western sanctions on Russia, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 26 - The economic losses Ukraine has sustained as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster total will nearly $180 billion by 2015, said President Viktor Yanukovych.

KIEV, April 29 – Ukraine is not happy with its cooperation with the Energy Community because it does not observe its national interests, but is not going to leave the organization, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror of the Week. Ukraine) newspaper.

KIEV, April 29 – TVi, a Ukrainian television channel that exposed corruption in the government and which was recently embroiled in an ownership battle, plunged into further disarray on Monday when most of its reporters quit.