KYIV, March 16 - Ukraine and the U.S. agreed on a plan that would enable supplies of up to 8 billion cubic meters of U.S. natural gas to European markets, Kostiantyn Chyzhyk, deputy energy minister, said.

MOSCOW, March 16 - Russia's VTB plans for the time being to continue to work in Ukraine but to exit the country in time, the bank's head, Andrei Kostin, told reporters on the sidelines of a Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) congress.

KIEV, March 16 - Ukraine’s government on Thursday extended for 30 days the state of emergency in the power sector in reaction to suspended supplies of anthracite coal, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

MOSCOW, March 15 - Russia has not carried out fuel deliveries to Belarus via pipeline, fuel was transported through Belarus in transit to Ukraine and on to Europe.

KIEV, March 15 – Danosha, a company with 100% Danish capital (Ivano-Frankivsk region), plans to begin the construction of a biogas plant with a capacity of 1.1 MW in 2017.

KIEV, March 15 - SCM Group says it has fully lost control over all of its assets in the breakaway parts of Donbas.

"SCM Group hereby states that as of today, March 15, 2017, is not in control of its assets located in the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, temporarily not controlled [by the central government]," SCM said on its website on Wednesday.

KIEV, March 14 – Instalaciones Inabensa S.A. (Spain), the contractor for building the 750 kV Zaporizhia nuclear plant-Kakhovska substation power grid, has allowed a delay in the implementation of the four interim stages of the project, Ukrenergo stated.

KIEV, March 14 - The State Property Fund plans this week to sell shares of 31 companies at a discount of 50-60% on the stock exchange, as well as shares of three more companies at an auction with a price decrease (a Dutch auction).

ALMATY, March 14 – In an indication of warming relations between the two former Soviet states of Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the Kazakhs have announced plans to produce a film based on the life of Ukrainian literary icon Taras Shevchenko.

KIEV, March 15 - Westinghouse Electric and TurboAtom will join forces on a project to upgrade Ukraine’s nuclear power reactors to boost their capacity by 10%, EnergoAtom reported Tuesday.