KIEV, June 6 - The Ukrainian government started consultations with U.S. oil company Vanco Energy weeks after canceling its offshore oil extraction license and the production sharing agreement, a Vanco official said Friday.

KIEV, June 8 – Ukraine’s consumer prices continued to increase rapidly in May, breaching the level of 31% if measured over the past 12 months and underscoring the government’s failure to get things under control.

KIEV, June 8 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s slim pro-government majority in Parliament de-facto collapsed on Friday after two of its lawmakers announced their decision to quit the coalition.

KIEV, June 8 ??“ European countries should be interested in an alliance between those who produce, transport and consume gas, to improve their energy security, President Viktor Yushchenko said addressing members of Parliament in the Netherlands.

LONDON, June 8 - Ukraine and Britain have postponed joint military exercises scheduled for next week, British officials said on Thursday, following a political stalemate that has halted the work of the Kiev Parliament, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 8 ??“ Ukraine??™s natural gas prices for households will increase 85% starting from July 1, according to a decision approved by a special government commission that regulates the country??™s energy sector.

WASHINGTON, June 8 ??“ President George W. Bush has dropped tentative plans to visit Ukraine later this month and will instead go to Hungary to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution against Soviet domination.

ANKARA, June 7 ??“ Ukraine and Turkey have signed a number of agreements on cooperation in the field of science and technology power industry and railway transport, as part of the official visit of Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko to Turkey.

ANKARA, June 7 - The turmoil the European Union is facing over the EU constitution has not discouraged Ukraine from trying to join the bloc, President Viktor Yushchenko said here Tuesday.

KIEV, June 7 -- Russian natural gas giant Gazprom has agreed to sell an extra 5 billion cubic meters of gas to Ukraine this year, Naftogaz Ukrayiny said.