KIEV, Aug. 19 - Ukraine’s national energy company, Naftogaz Ukrayiny, will appeal a recent Ukrainian court ruling obliging the company to return 12.1 billion cubic meters of natural gas to RosUkrEnergo, the energy and fuel ministry said Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 19 — Ukraine's interior minister said Thursday that investigators will make every effort to find a missing journalist who wrote about corruption in law enforcement structures, The Canadian Press reported.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – The National Bank of Ukraine could expand its hryvnia exchange rate support after receiving Special Drawing Rights (SDR) from the International Monetary Fund, said First Deputy NBU Governor Anatoliy Shapovalov.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in a statement, disputed comments by President Viktor Yushchenko that the government’s widening budget deficit is a threat for the national currency, the hryvnia.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday agreed to schedule a number of meetings this year aimed at increasing economic cooperation between the two countries.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – Yulia Tymoshenko's government is working on a new strategic agreement that should include transparent provisions for the formation of price for Russian natural gas supplies and its pumping through Ukraine, said Oleksandr Hudyma, the premier's adviser for energy issues.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – Russia, in apparent compliance with President Viktor Yushchenko’s decrees, notified Ukraine that four battleships will be arriving at their main base in Sevastopol on Wednesday, the Defense Ministry reported Tuesday.

KHARKIV, Aug. 16 – Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych plans to meet with his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Fradkov, in Sochi on Aug. 20.

KIEV, Aug. 17 - Ukraine, which has an overcapacity of power generation, will seek to boost exports of power, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said Friday while visiting a nuclear power plant in Mykolayiv region.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Tensions have been growing between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych ahead of their upcoming meeting to discuss the government’s initiative for holding an emergency session of Parliament next month.