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Kiev  – Seven Ukrainian churchgoers died and eight were injured in a Sunday road accident, police officials said.

Kiev – Ukraine’s Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko on Monday submitted his resignation to parliament in the wake of a drunken conflict with German airport police.

Kiev/Moscow  – Ten people were killed Thursday when an explosion ripped through a gambling hall with slot machines in eastern Ukraine, media reports said.

Brussels – The European Union and Ukraine could sign a new strategic deal by the end of the year, bringing Kiev and Brussels even closer on issues such as trade and travel, the EU’s foreign-affairs commissioner said in Brussels on Thursday. “If things do not slow down for political reasons, hopefully we will be done [...]

Kiev – Ukrainian border police have intercepted a record load of smuggled cigarettes, Korrespondent magazine reported Wednesday. Law enforcers at the Chop border crossing inspecting vehicles traveling from the former Soviet republic into the Czech Republic late Tuesday night discovered more than 220,000 packages of L&M cigarettes concealed in a rail car.

Moscow  – Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom warned it could again cut supplies to Ukraine in early March over 400 million dollars in new debt, a Russian newspaper reported Thursday.

Kiev – A high-powered delegation from UEFA arrived in Ukraine on Monday to inspect the former Soviet republic’s preparations to co-host the Euro 2012 football championship.

Kiev  – It used to be that Kiev City Hall stopped trying to make money off taxpayers once they were finally dead.

Moscow  – The Russian gas monopoly Gazprom began Tuesday to pump gas to Europe into a Ukrainian transit pipeline for the first time since a nearly two-week supply blockade began, the Russian Interfax news agency reported.

Moscow  – Russia and Ukraine settled their contractual dispute over gas supplies early Monday morning, bringing an end to a week-long embargo on transits to gas-starved Europe.