SANYA (China), April 15 - The crisis in Libya is a serious blow to the Ukrainian economy, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, April 17 – Ukraine may use a recently opened probe against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for legally challenging and canceling a 10-year natural gas agreement with Russia, First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin said Friday.

KIEV, April 17 – Ukrainian prosecutors need “several more days” to complete investigation into the alleged involvement of former President Leonid Kuchma in the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze in September 2000, Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka said Sunday.

KIEV, April 17 – Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has sent a note to the secretary general of the World Trade Organization, officially informing that office of the ratification of a protocol on Ukraine's joining the organization, which was signed in Geneva on Feb. 5.

KIEV, April 17 - President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday he suspended privatization of Odessa Portside Plant, the major producer and exporter of ammonia, because the government also wanted to sell its pipeline, a strategic asset.

KIEV, April 17 - President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday that he would do everything to make sure the pro-Western coalition remains intact, rejecting mounting speculation that his uneasy alliance with the Tymoshenko group might soon collapse.

KIEV, April 17 - President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday remained sharply divided over Ukraine's future constitutional amendments and the way the amendments must be approved.

KIEV, April 16 – Parliament Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk, has called on the donor countries that undertook obligations to finance the construction of the Shelter facility at Chornobyl nuclear power plant (ChNPP) to meet these obligations.

KIEV, April 17 ??“ Ukraine??™s political crisis has started to affect law enforcement agencies with Prosecutor General??™s Office and SBU, the security service, providing different accounts over alleged corruption at the Constitutional Court.

KIEV, April 17 ??“ Ukraine??™s political crisis may ease within the next 10 days as figures have been making progress in discussions over the settlement, Oleksandr Chaliy, deputy chief of staff at the office of President Viktor Yushchenko, said.