KIEV, June 22 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov agreed to travel to Moscow on Monday for energy talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after a phone conversation between the two on Tuesday, a news agency reported.

KIEV, June 22 – Belarus on Tuesday threatened to shut down Russian natural gas supplies to Europe after accusing Moscow of waging a “gas war” against the country as debt dispute between the two escalated.

KIEV, June 21 – The hiding of data on the conditions of foreign crediting of the national budget is unacceptable, according to the head of the Ukrainian Fund for Reform Support and ex finance minister Viktor Pynzenyk.

KIEV, June 22 - The Ukrainian president's commissioner for international energy security, Bohdan Sokolovsky, has met with U.S. delegates headed by U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar.

The meeting was held at the initiative of the U.S. side, the presidential press service reported on Saturday.

KIEV, June 22 – The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is suffering from extremely low financing, according to a source at the ministry.

KIEV, June 19 – Ukraine should take a well-deserved place in a united Europe, President Viktor Yushchenko said at a plenary meeting of the 16th Summit of Central European Heads of State in Novi Sad in Serbia.

KIEV, June 22 – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday threatened to “take action” if Ukraine fails to fully pay by July 7 for natural gas imports in a message that has been apparently aimed at the European Union.

KIEV, June 22 – Consensus was growing Monday among Ukraine’s key political figures for holding an early parliamentary election jointly with the next presidential vote, with major political figures saying the move could potentially make the country’s governance more effective.

KIEV, June 19 – Ukraine supports the operation of European energy markets under unified rules and equal access by all operators, President Viktor Yushchenko said on Friday.

Speaking at a plenary meeting of the 16th Summit of Central European Heads of State in Serbia, Yushchenko said he is confident that faced with the current global crisis all countries need solidarity "as a political fact" and "a tool to counteract" all the challenges facing the European continent and the world in general, the presidential press service reported.

KIEV, June 20 – European Union officials called on Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to heal political rifts with her rivals to ward off further political instability that may slow down economic development in Ukraine.