KIEV, May 19 - Turkmenistan will continue to supply natural gas to Ukraine through Russia's Gazprom in 2009, said Gurbanmurat Begmuradov, the CEO of Turkmen state bank Khalkbank, who led the Turkmen delegation at an annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Kiev last week.

Ukraine will buy gas on the Russian market, because Turkmenistan has outstanding gas contracts with Gazprom, Begmuradov said.