KIEV, Feb. 26 - President Viktor Yushchenko in a telegram on Tuesday told Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to make “urgent” payment of natural gas debt owed to Russian gas giant Gazprom.

KIEV, Feb. 26 - Russian gas giant Gazprom may cut natural gas supplies to Ukraine on Wednesday as the country has failed to clear its outstanding gas debt, the office of President Viktor Yushchenko announced Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 26 ??“ Ukraine is still interested in resuming talks on creating a Ukrainian-Russian gas transportation consortium with the participation of Germany, Ukrainian Premier Viktor Yanukovych has told Deutsche Welle.

KIEV, Feb. 26 ??“ Russia and Ukraine are in talks to merge aircraft producing assets in order to create a powerful producer of passenger and cargo planes, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said Monday.

WROCLAW, Feb. 23 ??“ The Czech Republic sees the reversal of the flow of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline so as to carry Caspian crude to Central Europe as inevitable, deputy foreign minister Jaroslav Basta told Interfax Central Europe.

KIEV, Feb. 23 ??“ Naftogaz Ukrayiny will send a team to Tashkent before March 10 to meet with the top management of Uzbekneftegaz to discuss opportunities to boost Uzbek gas supplies to Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 25 ??“ A pro-Russian opposition group threatened to start street protests in Crimea in reaction to a pressure from the Ukrainian authorities to cancel a local referendum on the status of the Russian language.

KIEV, Feb. 26 ??“ European energy security and supply diversification will dominate talks between Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday, Kaczynski said an in a newspaper interview.

KIEV, Feb. 25 ??“ Ukraine will seek to boost domestic natural gas output by 50% in an attempt to offset likely gas import disruptions during the next winter season, Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov said Saturday.

WARSAW, Feb. 24 - A business plan for the Polish section of the Brody-Plock oil pipeline project, estimated to be worth EUR 500 mln, should be presented on March 15, according to Polish pipeline system operator PERN Director Andrzej Zelechowski.