KIEV, April 16 – The Extended Fund Facility of the International Monetary Fund, which foresees the restructuring of Ukraine's sovereign and quasi-sovereign foreign debt, only requires Ukreximbank and Oschadbank to lengthen maturities on their loan participation notes but not impose and “haircut“ or coupon reduction on investors, the Finance Ministry said.

KIEV, April 14 – The National Bank of Ukraine as of April 15 has raised its discount rate to 9.5% from 6.5% per annum, where it has been fixed since August 13, 2013, the NBU said.

BRUSSELS, April 15 - The adoption of temporary tariff cuts on Ukrainian goods by the Council of the European Union will be signed into law in the coming days, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said.

MOSCOW, April 16 - The list of Ukrainian products which are banned from Russia could be expanded, the Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said.

KIEV, April 16 – The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to temporarily disconnect 14 banks from the system of the confirmation of agreements on the interbank currency market, accusing them of forming negative expectations towards the national currency.

KIEV, April 15 - Electricity consumption, including in-process losses in the Ukrainian grids, fell by 5.9%, or by 3.164 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), year-over-year, in Q1 to 50.457 billion kWh.

KIEV, April 15 - Inflationary expectations of heads of Ukrainian enterprises for the next 12 months fell to the lowest figure since the polls have been conducted, reads a posting on the Web site of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, April 16 - Ukraine’s natural gas output fell 1.1% year-on-year to 1.75 billion cu m in March from 1.77 Bcm in March 2012, an energy and coal industry ministry official said Tuesday.

KIEV, April 12 – The Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry said that the conditions of tenders for signing product sharing agreements (PSAs) could be revised if the natural gas royalty is increased.

KIEV, April 13 - TNK-BP is convinced it will win a tender to sign a PSA agreement for the Yuzovska field (Kharkiv and Donetsk regions), German Khan, TNK-BP executive director at told reporters in Kiev.

"We're full of optimism. We want to win, as we have advantages," he said.