KIEV, May 26 - Petro Poroshenko has confirmed his intention to deliver on his promise to sell his business assets after becoming president.

"As regards my business, a contract with an investment company will be drafted immediately after that to search for buyers," he told reporters at his campaign headquarters in the early hours of Monday.

BERLIN, May 28 - Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk called on Russia Wednesday to block the border to Ukraine to stop Russian militants from entering the country where they join rebel forces and fight the government’s troops.

PARIS, May 28 - President-elect Petro Poroshenko will attend the 70th anniversary of the World War Two "D-Day" landings in Normandy, his office said on Wednesday, potentially creating an opportunity for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

ST PETERSBURG, May 28 - Former Olympic pole vault champion Sergei Bubka launched his bid for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday, the sixth candidate for world sport's most influential post, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 28 – Batkivshchyna, Ukraine’s largest opposition party, announced Tuesday it will hold a massive protest march in Donetsk, the stronghold of President Viktor Yanukovych, on May 31.

KIEV, May 28 – The natural gas contract between Ukraine and Russia is not the only item on the bilateral talks agenda, according to the Ukrainian cabinet.

KIEV, May 28 – Ukraine’s new constitutional amendments will ensure the president has strong powers and is elected by popular vote, Leonid Kravchuk, a former president and the chief of a body working on the draft, said.

KIEV, May 28 - President Viktor Yushchenko's top energy envoy on Thursday questioned the idea of building a Libyan oil refinery near Odessa without reversing the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline away from moving Russian crude oil.

KIEV, May 28 – The opposition Regions Party suspended talks with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko over constitutional amendments due to “various circumstances,” Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Regions Party, said Thursday.

WARSAW, May 28 - The European Union will offer Ukraine an "ambitious partnership" in September during France's six-month tenure as E.U. president, AFP reported Wednesday, citing French President Nicolas Sarkozy.