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Russia and Ukraine will soon finalize joint agreements on cooperation in the fuel and energy sector, on nuclear energy and rocket and space technology, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.

"Work on specific projects is certainly ahead. I hope that very soon we will complete a number of documents currently being agreed upon in the fuel and energy sector, including nuclear energy, and that our cooperation on rocket and space technology, aircraft and shipbuilding will broaden," Medvedev said at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Monday.

"I would like our cooperation to go high tech, given the potential of our economies, the affinity of their technological and manufacturing capabilities, and despite quite a difficult period, the post-Soviet period and the crisis of the past two years, these economies do correlate with one another," the Russian president said.

This is the only way to achieve full results, he said.

Russia is ready to start 24-hour satellite broadcasting of one of the main Ukrainian television channels, Medvedev added.