KIEV, April 15 – The Ukrainian government, under a proposal of the Finance Ministry, has made several decisions to resolve the systemic problem of financing the frontline territories and so-called "grey zones."

KIEV, April 16 - A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views was shot dead on Thursday in Kiev, a day after the killing of a political supporter of ousted Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovych, driving up tension between Moscow and Kiev, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 14 – Ukraine's Supreme Court has closed the "gas case" against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, citing what it termed the absence of any actual criminal event.

BRUSSELS, April 15 – The European Union has extended the list of Ukrainians whose assets within the European Union will be frozen and who are prohibited from entering the European Union.

BRUSSELS, April 16 - NATO said on Wednesday it would send more ships, planes and troops to eastern Europe to reassure allies worried by Russia's annexation of Crimea but shied away from new permanent bases in the east as Poland wanted, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 16 - Ukraine has launched a criminal investigation against Russia's biggest lender Sberbank for facilitating financing of pro-Russian separatists, acting Attorney General Oleh Makhnitsky said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

Makhnitsky said the Attorney General's office was investigating 14 banks for helping to finance separatists who have taken over a number of buildings in eastern Ukraine, but he did not say whether all the investigations were criminal.

GENEVA, April 16 - Foreign ministers from East and West will meet in Geneva Thursday for what may be their last chance to try to defuse the Ukraine crisis.

MINSK, April 15 - During a phone conversation on Monday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych reached an agreement to meet in May, the Belarusian president's press service announced.

KIEV, April 15 – President Viktor Yanukovych has set up a state commission on cooperation with the World Trade Organization and appointed Andriy Honcharuk, a presidential advisor and head of the presidential administration's main department for international relations, as head of the commission.

KIEV, April 15 – Ukraine will fulfill the obligations it undertook while joining the Council of Europe, President Viktor Yanukovych has said at a meeting with co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin and Mailis Reps.