KIEV, Dec. 24 - President Viktor Yushchenko is expected to soon meet his Turkmeni counterpart Separmurat Niyazov and both parties may sign a 25-year natural gas supply agreement, Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov said Saturday.

KIEV, Dec. 25 - Ukraine apparently agreed to a substantial hike in price of natural gas that will be supplied from Turkmenistan next year, Energy and Fuel Minister Ivan Plachkov suggested Sunday.

KIEV, Dec. 25 - Ukraine and Russia rapidly drifted towards a showdown in the International Arbitration Court in Stockholm amid failure to reach a mutually acceptable compromise over natural gas prices in 2006, officials said.

MOSCOW, Dec. 23 - Russian gas giant OAO Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) on Friday carried out training of a crisis center set up to ensure stable supplies of gas to European consumers through Ukrainian territory, Gazprom Deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said at a press conference in the Interfax central office on Friday.

KIEV, Dec. 23 - Ukraine is pressing for between $1 bln and $1.5 bln to be set as the yearly level for direct state subsidies to its agro-industrial complex at the current round of World Trade Organization accession talk, Economics Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said in Kiev, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

KYIV, Nov 25 – Ukraine is fulfilling its promise to strengthen its presence in African countries: it is expanding its diplomatic representation, still intends to hold the Ukraine-Africa summit and is ready to cooperate in many areas - from food supplies to technology exchange and security assistance, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

LONDON, Nov 25 - Britain sanctioned 30 ships in Russia’s so-called shadow fleet that have been skirting restrictions to transport billions of dollars of petroleum, the Foreign Office said Monday.

BERLIN, Nov 25 - Europeans will step up military support for Ukraine, Germany's defense minister pledged on Monday after talks with his British, French, Italian and Polish counterparts on how to foster defense efforts as Donald Trump is set to return to the White House, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Nov 25 – The updated Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies of Ukraine signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) contains an obligation to implement effective and transparent judicial reform consistent with European judicial standards.

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 - Two U.S. senators are pushing to boost shipments of lethal weapons to Kyiv as the West nervously watches Russian troops and equipment mass along Ukraine’s eastern border, Politico reported Thursday.