MOSCOW, Sept. 29 - Trade between Russia and Ukraine is coming close to zero, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

"It should be frankly admitted that today our trade is in a very mediocre condition. It has shrunk several times. And if this continues in future, this trade has a sagging tendency," Medvedev told a press conference after a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Russia-Belarus Union State.

"I'm not talking about investments which are simply not available," he said.

Meanwhile, the Russian prime minister said that "quite recently the Ukrainian economy has been linked with the Russian one to a considerable degree.