KIEV, Jan. 13 – The structural reform of the Ukrainian aviation industry will be done through the privatization of sector companies with the attraction of foreign investment, taking into account situation in the high-technology sector and retaining the state's influence on taking strategic decisions.

KIEV, Jan. 14 - The Ukrainian national energy trader Naftogaz Ukrayiny is asking Gazprom to lend it a necessary amount of so-called technological natural gas, i.e. gas used solely to maintain pressure in the gas pipeline system, to ensure gas transit to Europe across Ukraine, Naftogaz Chairman Oleh Dubyna said at a news briefing in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 14 - Ukraine cannot provide Slovakia with its domestically produced natural gas because Ukraine itself does not have enough gas, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at a meeting with her Slovak counterpart Robert Fico in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 14 – President Viktor Yushchenko has expressed alarm over the pace of replenishment the revenues target of the general fund of the national budget, which during the first 10 days of January 2009 was estimated at UAH 400 million less than year-over-year.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 14 - European experts were provided with full access to Gazprom's and Naftogaz Ukrainy's dispatching rooms on Tuesday evening, but all they could see was that gas was not flowing from Russia to Western Europe through the pipelines they were monitoring, European Commission spokesperson Johannes Laitenberger said.

KIEV, Jan. 14 – Ukraine will present a feasibility study for the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline, designed to pump Caspian oil to Europe, at a meeting in Brussels within several weeks, President Viktor Yushchenko said.

"Today, I am optimistic about this project as never before," he said at a press conference in Kiev.

KIEV, Jan. 14 - Russia seeks to destabilize Ukraine and to hurt its economy by shutting and refusing to resume natural gas supplies, a top energy security aide to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 14 - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Wednesday that she has been seeking to hold a meeting with her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the near future to end the natural gas standoff.

KIEV, Jan. 14 - The Nikopol Ferroalloy Works (NFW) must be returned to state ownership, in line with court rulings, as the date for an NFW shareholders vote, which could greatly reduce the chances of this happening, draws closer, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.

KIEV, Jan. 14 - Slovenian Ambassador to Ukraine Primoz Seligo has said talks between Kiev and Brussels on the signing of a new enhanced agreement may be completed in 2008.