Candidate for the post of Kyiv mayor and incumbent Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi is leading in the Kyiv mayoral elections with 36.89% according to the results from 890 polling stations, or 86.74% of their total number of 1,026.

Prosecutor's General Office of Ukraine re-qualified the criminal case, brought against Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko, who scuffled with Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskiy on January 18, from "infliction of light bodily injures" into a "malfeasance in office".

The emergency in Krasnopol region has being investigated in Sumy region. An-2 to furtilize fields fell near Slavhorod village. The pilot from Kharkiv died.

Following the recent discovery that some products were contaminated

At the level of 40 mln tonnes

Honoring memory of those lost in the Holodomor 1932-1933

And measures of the Ukrainian government on overcoming inflation

The government conceals information?

Ukraine's Defense Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov and his Slovakian counterpart Jaroslav Baska discussed in Uzhhorod (West Ukraine) military technical cooperation. The meeting took place in view of opening of the NATO Information Center within the Uzhhorod National University

A Target Program for 2008-2011 on informing the public about Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration will include 79 national events, its fulfillment will improve attitude of the Ukrainians toward NATO

The EU/UN Community-oriented Local Development project launched in Rivne region (West Ukraine) enables to develop a social sphere of villages. Territorial communities of eight districts that won the right in the tender will implement the project

It does not contribute to friendly relations between the two countries, Spokesman of Ukraine's Foreign Ministry Vasyl Kyrylych told reporters.

Deputy Justice Minister Yevhen Korniychuk said this in an interview with newspaper Day, adding that nobody has a stake in an early Cabinet resignation.

The members of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe came on a two-day visit to Ukraine at Mr Yatseniuk's invitation.

The scheme of the illegal seizure of the Ministry through a specially appointed acting interior minister is being developed. There are also plans to seize the Ministry by force," he disclosed at a press conference in Kyiv today.

The press secretary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Vasyl Kyrylych said this at a briefing today.

The statement confirms their devotion to active development of specific partnership relations between Ukraine and Canada.

The incumbent city mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi is holding the lead with 36.81% of the votes.

In his letter to Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, the President stressed that one of the state's key priorities is to ensure a sufficient subsistence level of its citizens based on social rights and public social guarantees set in the Constitution.

The parties discussed Ukraine's cooperation in oil and gas area with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.