Romania's president on Thursday urged NATO to embrace closer ties with Ukraine and Georgia - a move that Moscow bitterly opposes.

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek, currently on a visit to Ukraine, notes there are no grounds and powers to say that rights of the Russian-speaking population are violated in Ukraine, he made the statement in Simferopol where

Ukrainian experts, members of the Governmental Commission, currently on a visit to Hong Kong because of wreck of the Naftogaz-67 tug, note a high level of interaction with counterparts from Hong Kong

According to specified data of the State Border Guard Service, 13 persons found dead on the scene of the helicopter MI-8MT crash

Ukrainian MI-8 frontier helicopter heading for Zmiyinyi Island from Odesa (Southern Ukraine) fell into the Black Sea. As many as 13 persons were onboard, one of them found alive, the fate of others is unknown, the Ukrainian Emergency Ministry press

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will pay a two-day official visit to Ukraine starting Thursday. He is expected to meet with President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and Speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Ammonia exports from Ukraine will be suspended due to rise in prices for gas, Industrial Policy Minister Volodymyr Novytskyi said

The European Bank on Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) grants a credit of USD 139.3 million to three special-purpose companies that will possess three shopping centers in Ukraine and be involved in their operation

Borders of the European Union should cover Ukraine, Deputy Head of the Croatian Sabor (Parliament) Neven Mimica told a meeting with Ukrainian Ambassador to Croatia Markiyan Lubkivskyi, the Ukrainian Embassy in Croatia says

The OJSC Oshchadbank of Ukraine (Oshchadbank) will continue payments to depositors of the former USSR Sberbank only in Hryvnia (UAH) , while earlier they were made both in Hryvnias and US dollars

Ukrainian Ambassador to Finland Andriy Deshchytsya presented credentials to President of Finland Tarja Halonen

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has started in the Cabinet club premises a meeting with her Polish counterpart Donald Tusk, who came on an official visit to Ukraine

Ukrainian Defense Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov is confident that Ukraine should follow the example of the Russian Federation in development of relations with NATO

Ukraine's European integration will be successful provided it is a social project and not one of elites, Rapporteur for Ukraine of the European Economic and Social Committee Mall Hellam told the conference "Enhancing Transparency of the Negotiation Process with the

A joint project of the European Union and the United Nations' Development Program has started to work in Ternopil region

On March 27, the Military Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case on the crash of the MI-8MT helicopter belonging to the State Border Service of Ukraine (article 416 of the Criminal Code), according to acting judge advocate of the Southern

The Ukrainian Government has decided to increase all pensions to the subsistence minimum level starting on April 1, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said in interview with TV channel 1+1

Asia's biggest floating crane cannot come to Hong Kong this week to raise Ukraine's Naftogaz-67 sunken vessel

As of 7:00 a.m. March 28, the search and rescue operations on the scene of the Mi-8 helicopter crash have been finished. A special group continues investigation into the accident causes, the Emergency Ministry's press service reported

The Cabinet granted humanitarian aid to the amount of UAH 6.01 million to Tajikistan (1 USD - 5.05 UAH)