KIEV, May 16 – President Petro Poroshenko has met with the Group of Seven ambassadors accredited in Ukraine and called on them to extend anti-Russian sanctions due to the failure to meet the Minsk agreements.

KIEV, May 17 – Some 10 million pensioners, or 81.7% of the total, have received raises by Ukraine's Pension Fund effective May 1 as a result of a rise in the subsistence wage, Pension Fund Chairman Oleksiy Zarudny said.

KIEV, May 14 - The Cabinet of Ministers has dismissed Zorian Shkiriak as acting chief of the State Emergency Situations Service and appointed his former deputy Mykola Chechotkin in his stead, Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko told journalists on Thursday when asked about reshuffles in the Emergency Situations Service.

KIEV, May 15 - Natural gas purchases from the European Union will account for at least 50% of Ukrainian gas imports in 2015, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said in parliament on Friday.

KIEV, May 15 – Investigators have found no evidence that confirms the statements of the former head of the State Financial Inspectorate of Ukraine Mykola Hordiyenko alleging that UAH 8 billion had been embezzled by members of Arseniy Yatseniuk's government, First Deputy Prosecutor General Volodymyr Huzyr said.

KIEV, May 15 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk hopes for a cut in the price of gas imported from the European Union after talks which were held in Paris.

KIEV, May 15 - Ukraine is currently unable to fully service its foreign obligations and therefore the debt restructuring offer is necessary and right and the creditors should accept it, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, May 17 - Ukraine's military said its forces captured two Russian soldiers fighting with rebels in eastern Ukraine, BBC reported on Sunday.

The troops were seized in the town of Shchastya, near the line of separation.

KIEV, May 16 – The National Bank of Ukraine expects that the foreign currency inflow to Ukraine during the hosting of final matches of the Euro 2012 European football championship in June and before the parliamentary election in September will grow, which will support the hryvnia exchange rate.

KIEV, May 17 - Ukraine's independent unions intend on May 21 to begin a nationwide protest against the adoption of the Labor Code and a bill on rallies and demonstrations, Federation of Trade Unions of Workers of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises of Chairman Viacheslav Roy said.