KIEV, Aug. 17 - Ukrainian forces have raised their flag over a police station in the city of Luhansk which was for months under rebel control, Kiev said on Sunday.
KIEV, Aug. 16 – The trial of former Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko and the international community's reaction to it have not worsened the country's relations with European states, according to Oleh Voloshyn, director of the Foreign Ministry's Information Policy Department.
KIEV, Aug. 17 – Russia on Wednesday sought to play a role in the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by alleging that former President Viktor Yushchenko had supported the controversial gas agreement in January 2009.
KIEV, Aug. 16 – The police have launched a criminal case into a fire at warehouses near Nyvky subway station in Kiev under Article 270 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fire safety rules violations).
KIEV, Aug. 17 – Dangerous ammunition will be removed from the territory of the arms depot in the village of Lozova (Kharkiv region) within a year, First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev said in an interview with Channel 5.
KIEV, Aug. 17 – Ukraine will boost output of natural gas at least 50% over the next three years to about 30 billion cubic meters a year, First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev said.
KIEV, Aug. 14 - President Viktor Yushchenko's response to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's Aug. 11 address is formal and evades the existing problems in relations between the two countries, said Mykola Azarov, a Ukrainian parliamentarian and a member of the political council of the major opposition Regions party.
KIEV, Aug. 14 - Ukraine ended the first half of 2009 with a budget deficit of UAH 10.61 billion, the Finance Ministry said.
Federal budget revenue declined 3.5%, to UAH 101.12 billion in the first half of 2009 compared to the same period of 2008 with tax revenue falling 12.9%, to UAH 67.67 billion.
KIEV, Aug. 17 – The replenishment of reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine after the allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) by the International Monetary Fund is widening the ability of the central bank to support of the national currency, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine.
