KIEV, March 16 – The preliminary results of an early election to Ternopil regional council showed “increased public distrust in the government, even in areas that traditionally support it,” Regions Party leader Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, March 16 - Ukraine’s SBU security service obtained documents from the government concerning the disputed purchase by Naftogaz Ukrayiny of natural gas once owned by gas trader RosUkrEnergo, SBU chief Valentyn Nalyvaychenko said Monday.

KIEV, March 16 - President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will travel to Brussels to join an international conference March 23 for modernization of Ukraine’s natural gas pipeline system, a senior official said Monday.

KIEV, March 16 – Oleh Tiahnybok, the leader of Svoboda, the nationalist party that beat the Tymopshenko Bloc in Sunday’s election in the Ternopil region by a big margin, said Monday he will run for Ukrainian presidency in January 2010.

KIEV, March 13 – The number of Ukrainians hit by the global financial crisis has drastically increased in the last several months.

A poll conducted by the Razumkov Centre for Economic and Political Studies from Feb. 27 through March 2 shows 83.2% of respondents say they felt the effects of the crisis, some 13.2% have not and another 3.6% said it was hard to say.

KIEV, March 16 – Ukraine is negotiating on a contract for the supply of 50 An-148 airplanes to another country, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.

"We are discussing a deal for the supply of 50 aircraft with another state," the premier said at a meeting with the employees of Kiev's Aviant state aircraft plant on Monday.

KIEV, March 15 - A Ukrainian court convicted three former police officers on Saturday of killing Heorhiy Gongadze, an investigative journalist, almost eight years ago.

KIEV, March 14 - President Viktor Yushchenko on Friday approved in principle a natural gas supply deal reached earlier this week in Moscow between Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company.

KIEV, March 16 ??“ Ukraine will seek better and more pragmatic relations with Russia by appointing an experienced bureaucrat as the new ambassador to Russia, Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov said.

TBILISI, March 16 ??“ The European Union, Ukraine and Georgia have been studying construction of a $2 billion natural gas pipeline that would get them access to Central Asian gas bypassing Russia, a newswire reported Thursday.