KIEV, April 6 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny late Tuesday made the payment to Russia’s gas giant Gazprom for natural gas imports in March, a company official said.

The official refused to disclose how much Naftogaz wired to Gazprom, but Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has earlier said Ukraine had to pay about $700 million before April 7.

KIEV, April 6 - Ukraine will seek to arrange imports of natural gas from Kazakhstan at acceptable prices at a summit scheduled on Wednesday, President Viktor Yanukovych said Tuesday.

KIEV, April 6 - Ukraine is under pressure to immediately lower prices of Russian natural gas to prevent serious problems for the country’s steel and chemical sectors, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Tuesday.

KIEV, April 6 – The opposition group led by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday stepped up its campaign against a widely anticipated ruling by the Constitutional Court granting legitimacy to the governing coalition.

KIEV, April 6 – President Viktor Yanukovych scrapped a state body set up to oversee the country's eventual accession to NATO, according to a presidential decree posted on the presidential website.

KIEV, April 6 – Ukraine's official macroeconomic forecasts should be revised to introduce more realistic evaluation of the prospects to business, Ukrainian taxpayers and the international community during the financial crisis, according to Deputy Economy Minister Valeriy Muntiyan.

KIEV, April 6 – Arseniy Yatseniuk, a former speaker of Parliament and No. 3 most popular politician in Ukraine, on Monday attacked Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for the lack of a comprehensive program to tackle economic crisis.

KIEV, April 6 – Mykola Tomenko, deputy speaker of Parliament and a senior member of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s group, Monday backed President Viktor Yushchenko’s plan for simultaneous early presidential and parliamentary elections, underscoring the emerging split within the group.

KIEV, April 4 – A new row emerged between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, now over the role played by Viktor Medvedchuk, one of Ukraine’s most controversial politicians, in her government.

KIEV, April 6 – President Viktor Yushchenko said Sunday that NATO’s pledged commitment to one day accept Ukraine and Georgia as members of the alliance was “unexpected” good news, calling it an “historical” decision.