KIEV, Dec. 30 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law, which increases the deficit of the national budget for 2013 by UAH 19.4 billion, to UAH 69.98 billion, and the ceiling of state debt for the end of the current year by the same sum, to UAH 502.48 billion.

KIEV, Dec. 30 – An activist at Road Control, a website exposing traffic police corruption, has fled Ukraine after receiving threats that he may be arrested or even assassinated.

KIEV, Dec. 29 ??“ Protesters lifted their blockade of government offices Wednesday after receiving assurances that Viktor Yanukovych, the controversial Prime Minister, will not enter the building for at least two days.

KIEV, Dec. 29 ??“ Viktor Yushchenko, the liberal opposition leader who won the Sunday presidential election, within weeks plans a dramatic overhaul of political decision making along with creation of a new government, sources and analysts said.

KYIV, Oct 29 – Delegations of Ukraine and the European Commission following the regular trilateral meeting on gas issues including Russia in Brussels presented the common position over a contract on Russian gas transit through Ukraine starting from January 1, 2020, the Foreign Ministry reported.

KYIV, Oct 29 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Tuesday that economic reforms and deregulation started by his government will result in faster economic expansion in 2020.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 - A White House National Security Council official who listened to President Donald Trump's July call with the Ukrainian president told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he was so "concerned" by Trump's comments he reported his concerns to a White House lawyer, ABC News reported.

KYIV, Oct. 29 - Ukraine's military said the withdrawal of government and Russian-backed rebel troops started on Tuesday in Zolote, a town in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, Oct 29 – The European Commission suggested a 10-year timeframe for the new natural gas transit contract between Ukraine and Russia, and Kyiv fully supports it, Energy Minister Oleksiy Orzhel said Tuesday.

COPENHAGEN, Oct. 30 - Denmark on Wednesday gave permission for a joint German-Russian underwater gas pipeline to be laid to through its territory, in a blow to Ukraine and the United States that had fiercely opposed the project, AP reported.