KIEV, Feb. 15 – Ukraine has enough shale gas in its soil to meet domestic demand, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Friday adding that ongoing extraction projects will have their impact in five to seven years.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – Ukraine needs to take steps to improve its business environment, Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund in Ukraine Max Alier said.

KIEV, Feb. 17 - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that during his visit to Ukraine next week, he plans to discuss Ukraine's possible participation in the NATO missile defense system.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn on Wednesday gave the government coalition led by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko 10 days to produce evidence that the coalition controls a majority in Parliament.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – A Kiev court on Wednesday suspended Viktor Yanukovych’s certification as the winner of the presidential election to give time judges to decide whether fraud played any role in the vote.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – President-elect Viktor Yanukovych has said he will have enough strength and consistency to defend Ukraine's national interests in relations with all partners.

KIEV, Feb. 17 - Ukraine's GDP declined 20% in January year-on-year, the head of the group of advisors to the chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, Valeriy Lytvytsky, told Interfax.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – Ukraine on Tuesday called on the European Union to coordinate positions while negotiating natural gas imports from Russia in order to boost “collective bargaining power” and secure national interests.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday the resignation of Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk will probably trigger a chain of negative events in the economy that will further undermine budget revenue this year.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is ready to invest around EUR1 billion in Ukraine in 2009, and hopes that systematic steps will be taken to bring the country out of economic crisis, EBRD President Thomas Mirow said at a meeting with Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn in Kiev on Monday.