KIEV, July 3 – President Viktor Yanukovych said that Russia, the United States and China are priority countries for strategic partnerships.

"Ukraine is forming a system of strategic relations, given its course for the modernization of the country in a modern globalized world. Cooperation with Russia, the United States and China is acquiring particular importance... At the same time, cooperation with each of our strategic partners has its own specifics and priorities," reads the president's annual address to Parliament, the text of which was distributed on Tuesday.

Yanukovych said that Ukraine realized the importance of the further development of constructive and equal relations with Russia, in particular, taking into account the critical dependence of the Ukrainian economy on Russian energy sources.