On May 25 he visited Kiev for talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, Vitold Fokin.

The day-long talks were led by Crimea's parliamentary speaker Sergei Tsekov and his Ukrainian counterpart Alexander Moroz.

His Ukrainian counterpart Mikhail Yezhel responded that he would not scrap a 95% complete warship, and that the issue would be resolved in the near future.

They served under duress as did their Polish and Ukrainian counterparts.

A Putin aide met recently with Russian rock stars in an effort to persuade them not to join opposition forces, as their Ukrainian counterparts had last fall.

Variants include Alexis with the Russian Aleksey and its Ukrainian counterpart Oleksa/Oleksiy deriving from this form.

The borders envisioned by Onciul and as his Ukrainian counterparts correspond roughly to the present Romanian-Ukrainian borders in Bukovina.

Even yesterday, I found myself considerably irritated when I listened to Russian and Ukrainian counterparts declaring here that they were certainly not at fault.

John Connell, who is in charge of strategic arms elimination at Washington's Defense Nuclear Agency, has come to know his Ukrainian counterparts in meetings and over dinners.

A similar hybrid language was used whereby English words were given a Ukrainian inflection and used instead of their Ukrainian counterparts.