MOSCOW, April 29 – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Gazprom will forgo charging Ukraine a $2 billion penalty for importing a lower-than-expected amount of natural gas in January through April.

KIEV, April 29 – Constitutional talks between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the opposition Regions Party collapsed as time ran out to implement amendments before the next presidential election, a senior lawmaker said Wednesday.

KYIV, March 28 – The Ministry of Social Policy begins the process of public consultation on the draft Demographic Development Strategy until 2040.

KYIV, March 28 – Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that the main purpose of his first visit to India this week is to strengthen Ukrainian-Indian relations.

KYIV, March 28 – The Kyiv Defense Council held an urgent meeting in connection with the latest statements by the leaders of the aggressor country regarding their intentions to increase the number of missile attacks aimed at civilian targets and civilians of Ukraine and Kyiv in particular.

WARSAW, March 28 - The prime ministers of Ukraine and Poland said they made progress Thursday toward meeting demands of Polish and western European farmers who want restrictions on cheap Ukrainian food imports that they say undermine their livelihoods, but they announced no breakthrough.

KYIV, March 25 - Ukraine's accession to the EU roaming space is an important step that experts from the BRDO (Better Regulation Delivery Office) are calling for to take now.

"As the next step, we propose to temporarily abolish roaming charges for Ukrainians and connect Ukraine to the EU roaming market," the report says.

KYIV, March 25 – President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Speaker of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia Inara Murniece, Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen and President of the Riigikogu of the Republic of Estonia Juri Ratas who arrived in Kyiv.

LVIV, March 28 - Nearly 5,000 people, including about 210 children, have been killed in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol since Russian forces laid siege to it, Reuters reported Monday citing a spokesperson for the mayor.

KYIV, March 28 - Ukrainian forces claimed to have retaken a Kyiv suburb and an eastern town from the Russians in what is becoming a back-and-forth stalemate on the ground, while negotiators began assembling for another round of talks Tuesday aimed at stopping the fighting.