KIEV, Aug. 14 - Ukraine and its creditors on Friday failed to reach any progress in direct debt restructuring negotiations that would prevent the country from going into default.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – Ukraine intends to speed up repairs on its thermal power plants and to increase the capacity of electricity supplies to Poland by 400 MW, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius during their meeting discussed the escalation of hostilities in Donbas and prospects for bilateral cooperation.

KIEV, Aug. 14 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk and his Moldovan counterpart Valeriu Strelet discussed bilateral cooperation issues during their telephone conversation on Friday.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 15 – The European Union is increasingly concerned at the worsening crisis in eastern Ukraine and its humanitarian impact on the civilian population.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – The approval of the law to reform Ukraine's gas transportation system is paving the way for official talks to begin with companies from the EU and the U.S. that are interested in working with the system, Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny said in a commentary.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – More than 100 people are still being held captive by militants in east Ukraine, according to President Petro Poroshenko.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 15 – The European Union said restrictive measures taken by the EU are directly linked to the Russian Federation's violation of international law with the illegal annexation of Crimea and the destabilization of Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has expressed its strong protest over the attempts by the Russian Federation to put Ukraine's nuclear facilities, installations and materials in the temporarily occupied territory (in Crimea and Sevastopol) under Russia's national jurisdiction, and an attempt to apply to them the provisions of the agreement between the Soviet Union and the IAEA dated February 21, 1985.

BERLIN, Aug. 17 - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Sunday after a meeting with his counterparts from Ukraine, Russia and France that they would report back to leaders in their capitals and possibly agree on Monday or Tuesday how to continue talks, Reuters reported.