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Tymoshenko promises to resolve issue on construction of coal terminal in Sevastopol port
18:18
29.12.2009Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has promised to investigate the situation around the construction of a coal terminal in Sevastopol port.
Heavy snowfalls black out almost 1,600 Ukrainian towns and villages
17:32
29.12.2009Heavy snowfalls have caused electricity blackouts in 1,598 towns and villages in fifteen provinces in Ukraine, Emergencies Ministry's spokesman Ihor Krol told Interfax-Ukraine.
Ukraine, Russia agree to raise oil transit fee by 30% in 2010 - Naftogaz
13:30
29.12.2009The fee for transiting Russian oil through Ukraine will increase by 30% in 2010, spokesperson for Naftogaz Ukrainy Valentyn Zemliansky told Interfax.
Herman: Yanukovych will debate whichever candidate reaches presidential run-off
12:15
29.12.2009Regions Party presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych is ready to debate whichever candidate wins through to the second round of the upcoming presidential election, the party's deputy leader, Anna Herman, has told Interfax-Ukraine.
British tanker with Russians, Ukrainians on board hijacked off Somali
12:00
29.12.2009Somali pirates have hijacked a UK-flagged tanker with Russians and Ukrainians on board, according to the Maritime Bulletin Web site.
Head of Ukraine's main control and revision office dies
11:05
29.12.2009Head of the Main Control and Revision Office (MCRO) of Ukraine Mykola Syvulsky died in the early hours of Tuesday, December 29, Interfax-Ukraine has learned from the MRCO reception room.
Ukraine will see 13-14% inflation this year, says presidential secretariat's spokesman
21:23
28.12.2009The Ukrainian president's secretariat forecasts Ukraine's inflation in 2009 will be 13-14%, Oleksandr Shlapak, the secretariat's first deputy head, said in Zaporizhia on Monday.
Hrytsenko proposes law granting president the right to use military force abroad
17:48
28.12.2009Chairman the parliament's committee for national security and defense Anatoliy Hrytsenko has proposed to give Ukraine's president the right to apply the Armed Forces beyond Ukraine's borders.
Yanukovych leading as Ukraine presidential candidate - poll
16:32
28.12.2009Former prime minister Viktor Yanukovych, today leader of the opposition Party of Regions, will win the largest single proportion of votes in Ukraine's January 17 presidential election while incumbent Viktor Yuschenko can only expect negligible results, an opinion poll suggests.
Court rescinds CEC's warning against Tymoshenko for using state resources in campaign
14:30
28.12.2009Kyiv's Administrative Court of Appeal has cancelled a warning issued by the Central Election Commission against presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko for using official state resources in her presidential campaign, the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko's (BYT) press service reported on Monday.
Ukrainian government to allocate funds to purchase An-148 airplanes via land plots sale
13:40
28.12.2009The Cabinet of Ministers plans to allocate UAH 123.2 million to the Transport and Communications Ministry to purchase An-148 airplanes via the funds received from the sale of agricultural land.
Yuschenko blames Tymoshenko for failure to adopt 2010 budget
10:30
28.12.2009Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is personally responsible for the failure to timely adopt the country's budget for next year, President Viktor Yuschenko said.
Tymoshenko claims voters are being bribed in western and central Ukraine
17:16
26.12.2009Voters are being bribed in western and central regions of Ukraine, incumbent Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is running in this year's presidential elections, has said.
Towboat provides fuel, food, technical assistance to freed Ariana vessel, says Ukrainian Foreign Ministry
16:14
26.12.2009On Saturday, December 26, at 0500 Kyiv time, Kenya's Soland towboat docked with the Ariana vessel, which was recently freed after being held in captivity for seven months by pirates, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's press service has said.
Tymoshenko says Shuster threatened to call security if she appeared on his Friday TV show
15:21
26.12.2009Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that Savik Shuster, the host of the "Shuster Live" Friday night talk show on the TRK-Ukraine television channel, threatened to call security if she tried to enter the studio during the question-and-answer session of her presidential rival Viktor Yanukovych.
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