1.  A Ukrainian military spokesman said Chi will not visit any government agency or factory involved in missile and space technology.

2.  Kuchma and Lukashenko will hold talks in Gomel in southern Belarus, Ukrainian presidential spokesman Dmytro Markov announced in Kiev on Wednesday.

3.  U.S. Marines will hold joint exercises with Ukrainian marines in the Black Sea next month, a Ukrainian navy spokesman said Monday.

4.  Ukrainian navy spokesman Nikolai Savchenko told The Associated Press that the drills are aimed at strengthening peacekeeping skills.

5.  Yeltsin arrived at a government residence in the Crimea on Wednesday for several days of vacation by the sea, Andriy Chyrva, a Ukrainian presidential spokesman said.

6.  The Ukrainian spokesman said meanwhile that the only movement of interior ministry troops was to cover a recent gangland crime wave sweeping the Crimean peninsula.