BRATISLAVA, Sept. 10 - Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk on Thursday criticized as "anti-Ukrainian and anti-European" a deal between Russia's energy giant Gazprom and several Western firms to build a second gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea, AFP reported.

GRODNO, Sept. 8 - Gas delivered to Ukraine via reverse mode from the European Union costs about $20-30 more than the Russian offer, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a press conference on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has warned that any plan to hold elections in areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions temporarily uncontrolled by the Ukrainian government would lead to the disruption of the Minsk agreements.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – The National Bank of Ukraine expects to be able to gradually lift currency restrictions earlier than planned, NBU Deputy Governor Dmytro Solohub said.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – The mission of the International Monetary Fund will work in Kiev from September 22 to October 22 with the purpose of the second review of the Extended Fund Facility program for Ukraine, of the National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva said at a meeting with bankers.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – The National Bank of Ukraine has projected that inflation in 2016 would be 12%, in 2017 – 8%, and in 2019 – 5%, NBU Governor Valeriya Gontareva said at a meeting with bankers.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – Ukraine's aspirations for European integration do not contradict its cooperation with Russia and the CIS member states, said MP Mykhailo Chechetov, first deputy Regions Party chairman.

KIEV, Sept. 10 – The allocation by the EU of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine depends on the resumption of cooperation between Kiev and the International Monetary Fund, EU Ambassador Jan Tombinski said.

KIEV, Sept. 10 - Ukraine will reduce imports of natural gas from Russia to 10 billion cubic meters annually within the next several years, Oleksandr Yefremov, the leader of the ruling Regions Party group in Parliament, said Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 10 – Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denied a recent newspaper report alleging that Russian arms exports to Syria may have been coming via a Ukrainian sea port near Odessa.