KIEV, Jan. 27 – Ukraine hasn’t yet implemented all agreed reforms to qualify for the next installment of lending from the International Monetary Fund, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said.

KIEV, Jan. 27 - Prosecutors said Thursday they had opened a new criminal probe against Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko on suspicion of abusing power as the prime minister in 2009.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – President Viktor Yanukovych, who leads Ukraine’s delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, is not expected to meet key world leaders and will mostly focus on multilateral events.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – The Central District Court of Simferopol has ordered Anatoliy Hrytsenko, a former speaker of the Crimean parliament and a deputy of the current Crimean Supreme Council from the Regions Party, to be taken into custody.

KIEV, Jan. 28 - A pre-trial investigation has estimated the cost of state controlled assets allegedly misappropriated by former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko and another three former ministry officials at more than UAH 970,000.

DAVOS, Jan. 28 – Shell oil will soon start work on the production of shale gas in Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

"I praise your decision to finally start the production of shale gas in Ukraine," the Ukrainian president said at a meeting with Shell CEO Peter Voser in Davos on Friday.

KIEV, Jan. 28 – Heat supplies have been cut off in some regions of Ukraine, because the state needs money for the national gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy to return 12.1 billion cubic meters of gas to the Swiss-registered gas trader RosUkrEnergo AG, according to leader of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, Jan. 30 – A television journalist was hospitalized with a brain concussion and multiple injuries on Friday in Poltava following an apparently four-hour detention, assault and interrogation by police, a news agency reported Sunday.

KIEV, Jan. 28 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny CEO Oleh Dubyna has denied reports that President Viktor Yushchenko and his family are involved in gas supply schemes.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 30 - European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner said she is satisfied with Ukrainian-EU relations and intended to come to Kiev to participate in the discussion of energy issues.