President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych will pay a working visit to the Russian Federation today.

The press service of the President of Ukraine disclosed to UNIAN that during the meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin V. Yanukovych plans to discuss a range of urgent issues of the Ukrainian-Russian cooperation, in particular, in energy and trade-economic areas.

They will also paid attention to elaboration of mutually acceptable mechanism of interaction of Ukraine with the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

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According to the words of an informed source, in accordance with the preliminary program, the negotiations will take place from 18.00 pm till 20.00 pm (Moscow time).

It is expected that besides V. Putin, Vice-Chairman and CEO of Gazprom Alexei Miller, and Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak and head of the Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov will also take part in the negotiations.