KIEV, March 6 - Ukraine and Russia will hold the next round of talks on natural gas supplies and prices in April, President Viktor Yanukovych said Wednesday.

In his first comments on the issue two days after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin near Moscow, Yanukovych admitted the parties had failed to sort out differences on price formula.

“The main thing that we’re worrying about is forming a just market-based price for natural gas for Ukraine,” Yanukovych said in a statement released by his press service.