President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych said the gas contract signed three years ago, is very disadvantageous for Ukraine.

This view was expressed by the Ukrainian Prime Minister today who visited the Kyiv Center for Nuclear Medicine on the eve of World Day to Combat Cancer.

This is Ukraine's position on settlement of Transnistria conflict. Such an opinion was expressed by Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Lytvyn who also said that Transnistrian region needs to be provided with a guaranteed status in the united single state.

Defense ministers of Poland and Ukraine Mykhailo Yezhel and Tomas Semonyak discussed in Brussels issues of joint training of the units and subdivisions of the Ukrainian and Polish Armed Forces to ensure security during Euro 2012.

It is planned to be done in second half of the current year. This was disclosed by head of the National Agency for Science, Innovation and Information Volodymyr Semynozhenko.

38 people have died of hypothermia in Ukraine over the past 24 hours. In total, 101 Ukrainian died from the cold during the period from January 27 to February 3.

The railway administration of Ukraine signed an agreement with Russian company Ural Locomotives for supply of 50 main-line freight-hauling electric locomotives.

It restored its work in the early hours of February 3. In particular, access to it is open in Kyiv.According to the information of the Ex.ua administration on Facebook, the resource is functioning partially, not all the content is available, and restoration work is continuing.

President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine has appointed Ihor Kalinin the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. Kalinin previously worked as head of the State Guard department.

This was aired by Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boiko that who said that due to a sharp drop of temperature in Russia, coming of gas to Ukraine has sharply dropped.

On February 3 Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Yezhel will participate in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Defense Ministers session with non-NATO KFOR and ISAF contributing nations.

This was disclosed by Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Borys Kolesnikov who said that such an amount was spent on the reconstruction of the Olimpiyskiy stadium in Kyiv and the construction of the Arena Lviv stadium.

According to chief of the department of meteorologist forecasts at the Ukrainian Hydro-Meteorological Center, Liudmyla Savchenko, air temperature in Kyiv reached 25.5 degrees below zero on the night of February 2.

This is what Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Mykola Prysiazhniuk said. According to him, such a state of winter crops is due to weather conditions that had prevailed last autumn and winter.

Naftogaz also reported that the volumes of natural gas transited across Ukraine and the selection of imported natural gas remained at a level determined by the contract with Russia's Gazprom.

Russia was the most visited foreign country - 5,475,455 trips. It is followed by Poland (5,102,885) and Moldova (2,221,379), Hungary (1,726,957) and Belarus (1,581,128).

This is what Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov stated in Kyiv today during a meeting with Prime Minister of Moldova Vlad Filat.

According to MP Volodymyr Danilenko, millions of Ukrainian Internet users have a negative attitude to the actions of the Interior Ministry that explains its decision to disconnect the website EX.UA by the statement of U.S. State Department and claims of foreign rightholders.

This was disclosed by Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Boiko who said that the Ukrainian side has really sent letters to European Commissioner for Energy Mr. Oettinger and invited the European Commission to participate in the negotiations.

The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has registered a bill submitted by the Cabinet of Ministers, which proposes increasing the age limit for stay in public service.