MOSCOW, Sept. 4 – Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko will meet in Kharkiv in October, the Russian prime minister's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Echo Moskvy radio station on Friday.

Earlier, Ukrainian Ambassador to Russia Kostiantyn Hryschenko said that a meeting of a joint economic cooperation committee chaired by the Putin and Tymoshenko is likely to be held in Kharkiv in October.