KIEV, Feb. 13 - Ukraine will seek to resume imports of natural gas from Turkmenistan as well as shipping this gas further to markets in Europe, President Viktor Yanukovych said Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 13 - A passenger plane carrying soccer fans headed for a Champions League match skidded past the landing strip and cracked open in Donetsk on Wednesday, killing seven people, local officials said.

RIGA, Feb. 10 - This year's abnormally cold winter has unveiled the problem with Russian gas supplies to Europe and should give the European Union and Russia the push they need to create a gas transport consortium, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said during a lecture at the University of Latvia in Riga on Friday.

KIEV, Feb. 13 — German and Canadian doctors who arrived in Ukraine to see jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday were briefed by prison authorities on rules of getting access to the patient.

KIEV, Feb. 10 – President Viktor Yanukovych’s Regions Party has been dramatically losing public support over the past nine months, released data show, perhaps explaining its recent push to postpone elections by 18 months.

KIEV, Feb. 9 – Ukraine should "defend its national interests" in its talks with the European Union on the creation of a free trade area, President Viktor Yanukovych said on Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 13 – An international media watchdog slammed as “despicable” and “dangerous” a recent opinion piece written by President Viktor Yanukovych’s PR consultant in which he discusses the future murder of a prominent Ukrainian journalist.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – Ukraine and Paraguay are to set up a commission on trade and economic cooperation soon, and projects in energy, construction and railway construction will also be set up soon, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko said in Kiev on Monday after the completion of the first stage of talks between the official delegations of the two states at the level of foreign ministers.

KIEV, Feb. 13 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said that the decision to give up intermediaries in the sale of Russian natural gas to Ukraine made during President Viktor Yushchenko's Tuesday trip to Russia is "a great victory" of her team.

MOSCOW, Feb. 12 - Russian investors must not be discriminated against in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said.