KIEV, May 14 - Ukraine will increase coal output to about 85 million metric tons in 2012 from 82 million metric tons in 2011, as the country seeks to reduce dependence on energy imports, President Viktor Yanukovych said Monday.

KIEV, May 14 - President Viktor Yanukovych on Monday said he was “enthusiastic” ahead of a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow as Kiev seeks lower natural gas prices.

KIEV, May 14 – President Viktor Yanukovych, in apparent defiance of the European Union’s pressure over the treatment of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, said Monday he will not allow Ukraine to be “humiliated.”

VILNIUS, May 11 - Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite has warned Ukraine that its European prospects are becoming increasingly vague.

KIEV, May 11– President Viktor Yanukovych says that the “pause” in relations between Ukraine and the European Union will be useful for both sides.

KIEV, May 12 – The National Bank of Ukraine is satisfied with the current situation on the forex market, said Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, May 12 – The Nord Stream and South Stream gas pipeline projects implemented by Russia to diversify gas supplies to Europe are "politicized projects," President Viktor Yushchenko said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

KIEV, May 14 – The Ukrainian cabinet has increased the nominal interest rate for treasury bills from 8% to 16% per annum, the acting finance minister, Ihor Umansky, told the press on Wednesday.

KIEV, May 14 – The National Bank of Ukraine on Thursday asked the Swiss National Bank for expertise in upgrading the country’s banking sector and stabilizing the hryvnia, the local currency.

KIEV, May 14 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny paid cash for only 32% of Russian gas imports in April, while the rest of the payment was a credit from Gazprom, a senior official at President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday.

Naftogaz earlier reported it paid $620 million to Gazprom on May 6 to cover imports of 2.3 billion cubic meters of gas in April.