The U. S. research journal has this Thursday published a new study, conducted recently by a team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and the National Research Center for Radiation Medicine in Ukraine. It says that even a low-level exposure to radiation from the Chernobyl disaster can increase one's risks of leukemia.

Harsh steps taken by legislation against smoking have played a significant role in controlling smoking, with more number of Ukrainians starting to stop smoking. Government has banned the advertisement for marketing purposes; people are not allowed to smoke in public areas.

It seems that Australia is determined to get plain packaging rule in the country. Its determination was visible when it rejected Ukraine's plea that demanded a formation of a body in the World Trade Organization to decide whether the new layw have breached global trade rules.

Ukraine is one of those countries which are highly infected with AIDS. It is further more saddening that the country is not doing much to curb the lethal disease from the country.

Ukraine is under the specter of AIDS epidemic. As per reports, Ukraine is reeling under the burden of insufficient supply of drugs and people are raising questions over the role of government in controlling the situation.

Ukrainian establishments working together with UK and US law imposing agencies have apprehended the alleged cream of the crop of a worldwide ring charged of embezzlement of $70m from online bank accounts, crippling what was supposedly one of the major victorious operations in the diminutive run however rewarding times gone by of cybercrime.

Ukraine's biggest egg producer Avangard has announced a stock-market float in London, becoming the first firm from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to call for a IPO in the UK this year.

International Monetary Fund will be making a subsequent payment out of its emergency loan to Ukraine. The information has been disclosed by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

Leader of the Opposition Yanukovich is also keen to improve gas relations with Russia, reviving the idea of a gas consortium for allowing Moscow to co-manage Ukrainian pipelines.

While, Ukraine is dependent on Russian energy, Moscow keen to keep its fleet in Sevastopol, views it as a certain guarantee Kiev will not join NATO.

Washington  - US Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Georgia and Ukraine next month for talks on boosting the former Soviet republics' economies and supporting democratic reforms, his office said Monday.

Both trips involve political sensitivities with Russia, and the visit would come shortly after US President Barack Obama travels to Moscow.