KIEV, Jan. 30 – Ukraine assured the European Union on Wednesday that Russian natural gas supplies to Europe will not be affected by its emerging dispute with Gazprom over $7 billion penalty.

EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger met Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara in Brussels a week after Gazprom had slapped the penalty, Foreign Ministry reported.

KIEV, Jan. 29 – Opposition lawmakers will go ahead and hold a meeting in Parliament on Thursday in defiance of Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Rybak’s refusal to call the emergency session this week the lawmakers had demanded.

KIEV, Jan. 30 — The daughter of Ukraine's jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Monday that she has been invited to address US senators as she campaigns to secure her mother's release.

"I will deliver a speech" to the Senate's Subcommittee on European Affairs, 31-year-old Yevgeniya Carr, Tymoshenko's only child, told AFP by phone ahead of her visit to Washington.

KIEV, Jan. 30 — Ukraine’s top energy and coal industry ministry officials will be on 24-hour duty for the next two weeks as a spell of extremely cold weather continues to drain the country’s energy resources.

KIEV, Jan. 30 — Ukraine’s opposition parties across the board on Monday rejected a proposal from President Viktor Yanukovych to join a body that charged with drafting - and approving - the country’s next constitution.

KIEV, Jan. 30 – Two launches of the Ukrainian-Russian Dnepr rocket from the Yasny launch base (Orenburg region, Russia) are scheduled for 2012, Yuriy Alekseyev, head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine told journalists on Friday.

KIEV, Jan. 30 - Deputy Social Policy Minister Serhiy Tyhypko has reiterated that national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny’s plans not to import more than 27 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian gas.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – Ukraine hasn’t yet implemented all agreed reforms to qualify for the next installment of lending from the International Monetary Fund, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said.

KIEV, Jan. 27 - Prosecutors said Thursday they had opened a new criminal probe against Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko on suspicion of abusing power as the prime minister in 2009.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – President Viktor Yanukovych, who leads Ukraine’s delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, is not expected to meet key world leaders and will mostly focus on multilateral events.