KIEV, Jan. 14 - Ukraine’s largest oil company UkrNafta filed a lawsuit against the Russian Federation for seizing its gasoline filling stations following annexation of the Crimean peninsula in March 2014, the company reported Thursday.

KIEV, Jan. 14 - President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday he wanted EU and US help in securing Crimea's return from Russia and vowed to win back the separatist east this year, AFP reported.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 15 – EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Federica Mogherini has stressed that EU sanctions related to the annexation of Crimea and to "Russian destabilization of eastern Ukraine" will remain in force.

KIEV, Jan. 15 – The Ukrainian parliament has approved President Petro Poroshenko's decree that proposes three waves of mobilization in the country in 2015.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will fly to Ukraine to meet with government officials and discuss a U.S. plan to provide up to $2 billion in loan guarantees to Kiev this year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Jan. 15 - Fighting intensified around the Donetsk international airport on Thursday as pro-Russian separatists stepped up efforts to dislodge government forces and Ukraine's military said two of its soldiers had been killed, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Jan. 15 – A new head of Kiev city state administration could be appointed only after Oleksandr Popov is dismissed from this post, acting Kiev governor Anatoliy Holubchenko said.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 16 - U.S. senators talked about the weak position of the U.S. administration in terms of supporting Ukraine during the political crisis and the absence of a strong position with regard to Russia.

The State Department, in turn, spoke about the need for a peaceful solution to the current standoff in Ukraine and said that all tools "are on the table," including a ban on entry.

KIEV, Jan. 16 – The leaders of parliamentary opposition factions have said that the vote in Parliament on Thursday was illegitimate and described this as an overthrow of constitutional order in Ukraine and the seizure of power in the country.

KIEV, Jan. 16 – President Viktor Yanukovych’s party and its allies in Parliament in a controversial move Thursday voted to approve legislation that marks the government's biggest yet attack on civil liberties and unleashes repression against protesters.