KIEV, Oct. 12 - President Viktor Yushchenko met Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive officer of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, on Thursday, to express support for the company??™s energy projects in Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Oct. 12 - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov will visit Ukraine next week for crucial natural gas price talks with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Moroz said Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 12 - Ukraine will rush a mobile hospital and 10 mln hryvnia in emergency supplies, such as tents and food, to alleviate aftereffects of a major earthquake in Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.

ASHGABAT, Oct. 12 - Turkmenistan is growing unhappy with Ukraine's persistent delays with clearing a $500 mln debt for natural gas supplied earlier this year, a news agency reported Wednesday citing a person familiar with the situation.

KIEV, Oct. 12 - President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday created a special advisory body and invited top political parties to join in order to generate and secure support in Parliament for crucial policy decisions.

KIEV, Oct. 12 ??“ With its resolution of Oct. 8, Kiev Economic Court has cancelled the results of the international tender for design and construction of a nuclear fuel waste storage facility in Ukraine, according to which Holtec International (the United States) was named the winner.

KYIV, Sept 11 – Ukraine's Ministry of Finance hopes the interim U.S. budget is approved shortly and Ukraine would receive another $3.3 billion by the end of this year to cover the Ukrainian state budget deficit, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said.

KYIV, Sept 11 - The Ukrainian military said Monday that it recaptured strategic gas and oil drilling platforms from Russia in the Black Sea and claimed gains in occupied areas near Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine left in ruins after the war’s longest and deadliest fighting.

MOSCOW, Sept. 11 - Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Monday said he supported widening the terms for a proposed UN force to protect observers monitoring the conflict in eastern Ukraine, but his proposal was unlikely to get Kiev’s agreement.