KIEV, May 17 – President Viktor Yanukovych’s Regions Party is lukewarm to approving legislation that would allow jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko to receive medical treatment abroad, a senior party official said Thursday.

KIEV, May 15 – Ukraine's parliament adopted a bill on Tuesday to introduce floating rates of excise duty on oil products.

Bill No. 10379, which will amend the Tax Code, garnered 247 votes from the 321 MPs registered in the session hall.

KIEV, May 16 – Forty-seven percent of Ukrainians have said politicians will most of all benefit from the holding of Euro 2012 in Ukraine, according to DW-Trend eighth stage of a poll held by Ukrainian office of IFAK international research agency.

KIEV, May 16 – Kiev Court of Appeals has upheld a verdict issued by Kiev's Pechersky District Court against former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, who was sentenced to four years in prison for malfeasance.

LVIV, May 17 – Kiev hopes to sign an association agreement with the European Union by the end of this year, Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko said.

KIEV, May 17 - Ukraine within months will complete the feasibility study of a planned liquefied natural gas terminal on the Black Sea coast, the head of the agency supervising the project said Tuesday.

LONDON, May 17 - Ukraine must pass vital financial and pension reforms before it can resume talks with the International Monetary Fund to resume a suspended loan program, the IMF's country representative said.

KIEV, May 17 – President Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday dismissed Healthcare Minister Illia Yemets for “inefficient” work and “failure” to start planned reforms in the sector.

KIEV, May 14 – There won't be interruptions in gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych said in an interview with the BBC.

"Ukraine has a stable gas transportation system for gas supplies to Europe and a 10-year agreement with Russia on the volume of supplies, [and] price parameters.

MOSCOW, May 17 - The development of full-fledged relations with Russia will not create any obstacles to Ukraine if it wishes to take the road of European integration, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.