MOSCOW, June 20 - The Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry and the Ukrainian Economics Ministry plan to sign an agreement on trade in Ukrainian flat cold-rolled steel products during Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's June 22visit to Russia, a Russian ministry source told Interfax.

The agreement would enter into effect on July 1.

A government spokesman said that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov instructed the Russian ministry to conduct negotiations leading to the signing of the agreement.