KIEV, June 17 – Ukraine plans in 5-10 years to extract 30 billion cubic meters of its own gas every year and fully satisfy its gas needs, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, June 18 - A parliamentary hearing on Ukraine's budget was suspended for several hours on Tuesday after opposition deputies alleged that a deputy finance minister presenting the budget report was drunk, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 18 – A planned crisis meeting Wednesday between President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition groups appeared in danger of callapse following the news that Vitaliy Klichko, Ukraine's most popular politician, has suddenly refused to visit Yanukovych’s office.

KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine will turn its national natural gas producer and gas shipper into joint stock companies, potentially opening way for their future privatization, according to a government resolution published Monday.

KIEV, June 18 – Jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko plans a barrage of lawsuits against President Viktor Yanukovych in international courts following his recent remarks linking her to a contract murder 16 years ago.

KIEV, June 18 – Yuriy Boyko, the former fuel and energy minister of Ukraine and MP from the Regions Party, said that the present government's policies on the country's fuel market are inappropriate and unprofessional.

KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine and the European Union jointly work on a solution to purchase $4.2 billion worth of natural gas to fill Ukrainian underground gas tanks to secure steady gas transit to Europe, Naftogaz Ukrayiny reported Thursday.

A Naftogaz Ukrayiny team in Brussels met European Commission officials earlier Thursday to discuss two possible ways of solving the problem, Naftogaz said in a statement.

KIEV, June 18 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny faces 27.3 billion hryvnia, or $3.5 billion, in losses this year unless its renegotiates a natural gas agreement with Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, President Viktor Yushchenko’s office reported Thursday.

KIEV, June 18 – The International Monetary Fund has become increasingly concerned over the Ukrainian government’s decision to classify vital economic statistics this year, and this may “start to impede” its lending program to the country, a senior IMF official said.

KIEV, June 16 – The leader of the Front for Change public initiative, Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc MP Arseniy Yatseniuk, has called for a comprehensive international investigation into the activity of Ukraine's energy sector.