KIEV, Sept. 30 - Ukraine will seek a broad deal with Russia to include natural gas prices, gas debt payment schedule and transit of Russian gas to Europe, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 30 - Ukrainian state prosecutors said on Tuesday they had opened a criminal investigation against a Russian law enforcement agency, accusing it of supporting separatist and "terrorist" groups in the east of the country, Reuters reported.

KREMENCHUK, Sept. 27 – President Viktor Yanukovych has ordered Prime Minister Mykola Azarov to buy two dual-system high-speed interregional electric trains made by the Kriukov Car Building Works (KCBW) in Kremenchuk.

MOSCOW, Sept. 30 – Ukraine may lose up to $12 billion annually in trade with Russia after signing a free trade agreement with the European Union, a senior Russian official said Monday.

Sergei Ivanov, the chief of staff at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration, said the move would effectively destroy Ukraine’s aerospace and shipbuilding sectors.

YALTA, Sept. 28 - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has given support to VTB chief Andrei Kostin's proposal to boost the ruble's role in payments between Russia and Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 30 – Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, in a video smuggled out of prison hospital, accused President Viktor Yanukovych of running a ‘mafia’ government and urged the people to vote his party out of office next month.

LVIV, Sept. 30 – President Viktor Yanukovych, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, has decided to reform the Ukrainian Falcons, the aerial aerobatic demonstration team, Defense Minister Mykhailo Yezhel said at Yavoriv training ground in Lviv region.

KIEV, Sept. 30 – A mission from the International Monetary Fund will visit Ukraine in late October 2010 to check the implementation by the country of the Stand-By Arrangement with the fund, IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine Max Alier said.

KIEV, Sept. 30 - Ukraine asked Poland on Thursday to speed up decision-making on building an extension to the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline, which would enable deliveries of Caspian Sea crude to the Polish port of Gdansk.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – Ukraine hopes for further cooperation with the International Monetary Fund as a cooperation program under the Stand-By Arrangement, which was launched late in July, is being implemented, First Deputy Presidential Administration chief Iryna Akimova said pending a visit of IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.