MOSCOW, Sept. 7 — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Russian gas monopoly Gazprom on Monday to prevent any changes to a gas supply contract that have apparently been requested by Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Sept. 4 – Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko will meet in Kharkiv in October, the Russian prime minister's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Echo Moskvy radio station on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 4 – Ukraine will do its utmost to ensure that relations with its strategic partner – Russia – are always good, President Viktor Yushchenko said in a CNN interview posted on the presidential website.

BAKU, Sept. 4 - The recent events in Georgia did not affect GUAM (a regional organization of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova), Ukrainian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Borys Klimchuk told a Thursday press conference in Baku.

KIEV, Sept. 5 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, on Friday failed to secure agreement on natural gas prices to be charged in 2009 at talks with Russian gas giant Gazprom in Moscow.

KIEV, Sept. 5 – The upcoming European Union-Ukraine summit is heading for embarrassment as EU states continue to hold back an accession "prospect" for Ukraine, while the country’s pro-Western government may soon fall, a report said.

KIEV, Sept. 5 – U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday called on Ukrainian leaders to stay united for the country to be able to counter threats of economic blackmail or intimidation posed by a newly assertive Russia.

WARSAW, Sept. 6. - Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said construction of the Polish section of the Odessa-Brody-Plock oil pipeline is financially possible.

KIEV, Sept. 7 - Energy and Fuel Minister Yuriy Boyko will travel to Kazakhstan on Saturday for talks seeking to arrange supplies of Caspian Sea oil via Ukrainian pipeline Odessa-Brody, the ministry said Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 7 ??“ Ukraine stepped up its efforts to secure sufficient supplies of Caspian Sea oil to markets in Eastern Europe as the government held talks with both producers and consumers of crude.