KIEV, Aug. 17 - Yevhen Kushnariov, a former governor of the Kharkiv region and a key ally of former President Leonid Kuchma, was Wednesday detained by law enforcement for alleged abuse of power, officials said.

KIEV, Aug. 17 - Leaders of Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Georgia will meet on Thursday in Crimea to discuss ways of creating a powerful regional bloc to promote democracy in the former Soviet Union.

KIEV, Aug. 16 ??“ The Transport and Communications Ministry has ordered the state aviation service to arrange the additional maintenance checks of pressurization systems of Boeing 737 aircraft belonging by Ukrainian air carriers.

KIEV, Aug. 16 - January through July, UkrTransNafta's oil-trunk pipelines shipped 28.798 million tons of oil, which was 10.7%, or 3.46 million tons, down year-over-year, the Fuel and Energy Ministry reported on Tuesday.

KYIV, July 16 – Ukraine and the Czech Republic signed a number of agreements and memorandums in the field of internal affairs, healthcare, energy, defense and space industries based on the results of intergovernmental consultations.

KYIV, July 16 – The allocation of $50 billion to Ukraine through the G7 countries attracting loans from income from frozen Russian assets will be one of the main topics of the upcoming meeting of G7 finance ministers, which will be held as part of the meeting of G20 finance ministers in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on July 25-26, European Commissioner for Economics Paolo Gentiloni said.

KYIV, July 16 – Ukraine has fulfilled all the indicators of the second quarter within the Ukraine Facility and sent a request to the European Commission to receive a quarterly tranche of EUR 4.1 billion, First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko said.

KYIV, July 16 – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced a new aid package in the amount of $100 million to prepare Ukraine for winter, the press service of the President of Ukraine said.

KYIV, July 16 – The U.S. Department of State has transferred new equipment worth $5.8 million to Ukraine's State Special Transport Service (SSTS) in order to support humanitarian demining operations in territories liberated from Russian troops, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine reported.

KYIV, July 15 – The Cabinet of Ministers has established a mechanism of monetary compensation for private housing destroyed as a result of Russia's armed aggression in eastern Ukraine, the Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine has stated.