KIEV, Dec. 17 – The opposition is ready to unblock Parliament so as to consider the state budget for 2014, UDAR faction leader Vitaliy Klitschko said.

"We're ready to unblock the parliament to consider the budget. Let them approve this budget and take responsibility for it," he told reporters after a morning meeting of parliament on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 17 – An accident at the Sviato-Pokrovska Mine in Donetsk region, which is under control of Coal Energy, killed four miners and 13 miners were taken to hospital, the State Emergencies Service reported on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 17 – The foreign ministers of the EU member states have reaffirmed their readiness to sign an Association Agreement with Ukraine after the country meets the necessary conditions, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton said.

KIEV, Dec. 17 - President Viktor Yanukovych has secured a $15 billion bailout from Russia, offering respite for an economy heading ever closer to default but also drawing accusations he has sold his country out to its former Soviet master, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Dec. 14 - Ukraine is determined to sign an association agreement with the European Union as soon as possible, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, Dec. 17 - President Viktor Yanukovych will travel to Moscow on Tuesday for talks over energy and trade issues with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Yanukovych administration reported Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 16 – President Viktor Yushchenko will opposes the government’s plans to sign a memorandum with Russia's state nuclear power corporation Rosatom that anticipates long-term cooperation in production of uranium, Bohdan Sokolovskiy, Yushchenko’s top energy envoy, said.

KIEV, Dec. 17 – Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s foreign policy chief, left for Washington on Thursday to join a finance ministry team seeking resumption of lending from the International Monetary Fund.

KIEV, Dec. 17 – A heavy snowstorm has wreaked havoc on many Ukrainian regions Thursday leaving thousands of cars and trucks stuck on highways between cities for hours with authorities sending emergency crews to save lives.

KIEV, Dec. 17 – The opposition Regions Party on Wednesday demanded Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko address Parliament on the rapidly weakening hryvnia, along with the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.