KIEV, Sept. 24 - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday again pledged to remove RosUkrEnergo as Ukraine’s only supplier of natural gas imports starting in 2009 as part a hoped-for gas deal with Russia.

Tymoshenko already removed Ukrgaz-Energo, a RosUkrEnergo subsidiary, from Ukrainian gas distribution market earlier this year, replacing it with an entity 100%-owned by Russian gas giant Gazprom.