KIEV, Nov. 24 – President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday failed to deny a media report that he was going to join a meeting in Moscow December 19, skipping an EU-Ukraine summit in Kiev the same day.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – President Viktor Yanukovych said that Israel is an important Middle Eastern partner for Ukraine.

"Israel is an important political, trade and economic partner of Ukraine in the Middle East," he said during extended talks with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 24 - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny must return 12.1 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Swiss-based gas trader RosUkrEnergo, the court’s press service reported.

KIEV, Nov. 24 - Ukraine successfully completed a test-run shipment of 80,000 metric tons of crude oil to Belarus through Odessa-Brody oil pipeline, UkrTransNafta, the country’s oil shipping monopoly, reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – Talks between protesting small business owners and the government collapsed on Wednesday in a development that threatens to escalate the political standoff in Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 23 – The dismissal of the Ukrainian government led by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov should be a minimum demand by businessmen protesting against the adoption of the new Tax Code, Svoboda Party leader Oleh Tiahnybok said.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite will pay an official visit to Ukraine on Thursday, the deputy chief of the Ukrainian president's secretariat, Andriy Honcharuk, told reporters in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 24 - Ukraine will seek to modernize and integrate its natural gas pipelines into European gas supply system to improve the energy security on the continent, President Viktor Yushchenko said.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych, currently the frontrunner in opinion polls, may have greater challenges in winning the presidency than previously thought, a new survey shows.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – President Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, his main rival for votes in Ukraine’s western regions, for her “disastrous” economic policy.