KIEV, Nov. 25 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said she will show up in Parliament on Thursday to personally persuade lawmakers to override a presidential veto for the release of one billion hryvnias to fight flu.

KIEV, Nov. 25 - Ukraine sees $100 as a fair price for 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas in 2009, a top aide to President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday.

The price target is a quarter of what Russian natural gas giant Gazprom has threatened to charge Ukraine next year in case the country fails to pay $2.4 billion gas debt.

KIEV, Nov. 25 - President Viktor Yushchenko will take steps to make sure Ukraine pays its debts for Russian natural gas supplies if the government fails to solve the problem by Thursday, a top official said Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – Panic is sweeping the country as the hryvnia faces steep downward pressure, Volodymyr Stelmakh, the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, said Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 24 - Thousands of people from all over Ukraine gathered Saturday on a square in Kiev to mourn the millions who died of starvation during a famine engineered by the Soviet authorities 75 years ago.

President Viktor Yushchenko, speaking to the crowd, once again called on the international community to recognize the Holodomor — or death by hunger — as an act of genocide.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – Ukraine will continue to rely on its coal-mining sector in order to meet its long-term energy needs, but the industry must undertake a massive modernization, President Viktor Yushchenko said Sunday.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – President Viktor Yushchenko warned Sunday that he may take unspecified “tough measures” to make sure that Parliament gets down to business quickly following unexpected delays with creation of a government coalition.

KIEV, Nov. 24 ??“ Ukraine??™s Central Electoral Commission Wednesday declared Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner of presidential election, triggering a new wave of domestic protests and leading to sharp international criticism.

KIEV, Nov. 24 ??“ Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych??™s campaign staff interfered with the presidential vote and put pressure on the Central Electoral Commission, opposition leaders said Wednesday, citing telephone recordings thought to be made by the secret service.

KIEV, Nov. 24 ??“ An undisclosed number of elite Russian special forces, spetsnaz, was secretly airlifted to Ukraine with a mission to protect outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, a senior Ukrainian army official said Wednesday.