KIEV, Feb. 10 – Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych, the likely winner of Sunday’s presidential election, on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to resign and let a new coalition form the new government.

KIEV, Feb. 9 – The elections to the agencies of local government, including Kiev city council and the Kiev mayor's office, must be held in Ukraine simultaneously on May 30, 2010, said Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn .

KIEV, Feb. 10 - Ukraine will start moving Caspian Sea crude oil to markets in the European Union despite opposition to the project from Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday.

Yushchenko and Tymoshenko are at odds over a number of energy projects after the prime minister has banned state oil shipper UkrTransNafta from signing Caspian oil contracts on July 16, 2008.

KIEV, Feb. 10 - President Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday said Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko had abused her authority while signing the natural gas deal with Russia on Jan. 19.

Yushchenko, who spoke at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, the country’s top security body, criticized the deal as unfair for Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 10 – A sharp exchange erupted Tuesday between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko over alleged conditions of a $5 billion loan that the government seeks to borrow from Russia.

KIEV, Feb. 10 – In perhaps his harshest criticism so far of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, President Viktor Yushchenko compared Tymoshenko’s natural gas agreement with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to the non-aggression pact between Stalin and Hitler that preceded World War II and said that her plan to borrow $5 billion from Russia is a secret part of the same deal.

KIEV, Feb. 9 – The average annual exchange rate of the hryvnia will be UAH 12/$1 this year and its worst weakening to UAH 15/$1 would be seen in May and July, predicts Phoenix Capital investment company.

KIEV, Feb. 10 – The monthly inflation figure recorded in January 2009 (2.9%) sharply reduces the possibility of keeping the growth in consumer prices in 2009 at the level of the government's forecast (9.5%), according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank of Ukraine’s governor.

KIEV, Feb. 8 - President Viktor Yushchenko, in a sharp contrast with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, said it was “premature” to remove RosUkrEnergo as Ukraine’s sole gas supplier, suggesting the move would only boost natural gas prices.

KIEV, Feb. 8 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, on Friday rejected allegations from Russian gas giant Gazprom that Ukraine rapidly increased its debt for Russian natural gas supplies in January.