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Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has left on a one-day visit to Moscow to co-chair a meeting of the Ukrainian-Russian inter-governmental committee for economic cooperation.

Tymoshenko is accompanied by Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan, Industrial Policy Minister Volodymyr Novytsky, Agrarian Policy Minister Yuriy Melnyk, Transport and Communications Minister Yosyp Vinsky and first deputy CEO of the national JSC Naftogaz Ukrainy Ihor Dydenko.

A number of documents are to be signed as a result of the intergovernmental meeting.

The Ukrainian premier is to hold a meeting with her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Tymoshenko will also meet with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

This day the premier will return to Kyiv.