KIEV, Dec. 27 – Ukraine is ready to start to supply Zenit launch vehicles to Russia for its new space program, but the countries need to resolve the issue of the market price of the rockets first, State Space Agency of Ukraine head Yuriy Alekseyev said.

Commenting at a press conference in Kiev on recent reports in Russian media that the Russian Federation had decided not to use Ukrainian Zenit rockets, including in the Sea Launch international project for the commercial launch of U.S. communications satellites from a launch pad in the Pacific Ocean, Alekseyev said: "Nobody has said no to anything."

He said these reports may have been prompted by the start of Russian-Ukrainian talks on the market price of Zenit rockets, which could be used in future in a number of new Russian space programs.