KIEV, May 13 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman has accepted an invitation from U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden to visit the U.S. in June, the Ukrainian governmental information and communications department reported on Friday.

KIEV, May 16 – The Cabinet of Ministers will focus on several priority areas such as resolving the problems at customs, domestic gas production and dealing with monopolies, Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman said.

KIEV, May 16 – President Petro Poroshenko has vetoed a bill aimed at curbing the shortage of scrap ferrous metal on the domestic market and returned it to parliament with his proposals, his press service reported.

KIEV, May 16 - Experts from the UN Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee have included two Ukrainian citizens in the list of those suspected of smuggling weapons into the country and therefore recommended sanctioning them, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 16 – Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller on Thursday met a top Ukrainian official in Moscow amid growing concerns that Ukraine has been increasingly refusing to import Russian gas and replacing it with European supplies.

KIEV, May 16 – Thousands of protesters from across Ukraine led by three opposition parties are expected to descend on Kiev for a rally on Saturday and may clash with pro-government demonstrators.

BRUSSELS, May 15– Ukraine has been sharply criticized by Brussels in the sphere of political dialogue and reform in the European Neighborhood Policy Country Progress Report on Ukraine that was presented in Brussels on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS, May 15 – The European Union has named three steps that could help to return relations between Brussels and Kiev to their previous level – settlement of the problem of selective justice, holding free and fair parliamentary elections, and the implementation of necessary reforms.

MOSCOW, May 16 – Even though Western Europeans are weighing a possible boycott of next month’s Euro 2012 soccer championships, Kiev is ready to welcome Russia’s leaders with open arms.

KIEV, May 15 – The government of the United States has called on the Ukrainian authorities to release former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and other ex-officials of Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers, as well as restore their civil and political rights.