KIEV, Dec. 18 – Ukraine is ready to expand its presence in the global space cooperation with countries with developed space industries, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko has said in an interview with the U.S. Space News.

MOSCOW, Dec. 18 - Russia might buy $3 billion worth of two-year Ukrainian eurobonds by the end of this week, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told reporters on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 18 - Ukraine will continue its shale gas extraction projects, which will not be affected lower Russian natural gas prices, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 18 - Ukraine and Russia will now focus on talks to set up a joint venture to manage the country’s natural gas pipelines after signing a deal to lower gas prices, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 17 - The Defense Ministry said that this year the department has significantly improved its performance in all areas.

The Defense Ministry held a staff meeting in Kiev on December 13 to assess the performance of Ukraine's Armed Forces in 2012 and identify its targets for 2013, the ministry's press service reported.

KIEV, Dec. 18 – Filling stations chains that kept prices down in the election campaign period regained their profits by increasing the price of diesel fuel in November, reads a report on the state of the Ukrainian fuel market in September-November 2012 drawn up by the Kiev-based A-95 consulting company.

KIEV, Dec. 18 - Federation of Employers of Ukraine (FEU) President Dmytro Firtash has begun negotiations on gas supplies for Ukrainian industry, a source has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 18 - Ukrtransgaz, a subsidiary of Ukrainian national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy, has named Zangas NGS (Mykolaiv) the winner of a tender to upgrade and repair a 27.6 km Ukrainian section of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhgorod trunk gas pipeline.

MOSCOW, Dec. 18 - If Ukraine joins the Customs Union, export duties for energy may be cancelled, while overall Ukraine's profit from such an action may be up to $9 billion, Russian presidential advisor Sergei Glazyev said.

KIEV, Dec. 15 - Forty percent of Ukrainians want the country to enter into the European Union, according to an opinion poll conducted in December by the Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Ukrainian Sociology Service.