KIEV, March 14 - President Viktor Yushchenko is scheduled to visit Ashgabat later this month for talks with Turkmen President Separmurat Niyazov over natural gas supplies, Yushchenko's press service said Monday.

KIEV, March 14 ??“ The government will switch to borrowing on domestic markets rather than tapping foreign capital markets this year to reduce the risk of exchange rate fluctuations, Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk said Monday.

KIEV, March 14 ??“ About 20 top Russian businessmen, owners of banks, oil and steel companies, flew to Kiev Monday for a meeting with President Viktor Yushchenko, and were invited to boost investments in the country.

KYIV, Feb 15 – The estimates of the total cost of reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine as of December 31, 2023 is $486 billion over the next decade, according to the updated Rapid Damage and Reconstruction Needs Assessment (RDNA3) released by the Government of Ukraine, the World Bank Group, the European Commission and the United Nations in Thursday.

KYIV, Feb 15 – Some 94% of respondents expressed confidence in former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Valeriy Zaluzhny, 66% said they trust Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov (the index has increased from 60% in December 2023), and 64% of those polled said they trust President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (against 77% in December 2023).

KYIV, Feb 15 - Russia fired two dozen cruise and ballistic missiles at a broad area of Ukraine, hitting multiple regions after a midnight strike in Ukraine’s northeast killed five people in an apartment building, authorities said Thursday.

KYIV, Feb 15 – Discussions about the sources of increasing the state budget for 2024 continue; receiving an additional 0.5% of the projected GDP looks realistic, as is included in the program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), while attracting large volumes for the stated indicative needs of the Ministry of Defense will require radical solutions, the head of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, said.

KYIV, Feb 15 – Ukraine calls on the international community, in particular the UN and Turkey as guarantors of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, to demand from the Russian Federation to stop immediately the delays in the work of the Black Sea grain corridor and to unblock commercial navigation to the Ukrainian Black Sea ports, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Deputy Prime Minister for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov said in a joint statement.

KYIV, Feb 15 – Every tenth Ukrainian reported damage or destruction of his home due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to the results of the poll "Legal Protection of Victims of Russia's War Crimes" published at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine, conducted by the Rating sociological group in Ukraine on December 23-26.

KYIV, Feb 15 - Sweden pledged Wednesday to rush fearsome Archer artillery cannons to Ukraine “as soon as possible” but also cautioned that future military aid would have to be balanced with its own defense needs as a would-be future member of the NATO military alliance.