KIEV, March 13 – President Petro Poroshenko said he is not interfering with the sale of his assets, for the implementation of which Rothschild company was hired, but he accused Russian authorities of preventing the deal.

KIEV, March 16 – DTEK Energy, the holding company of the largest Ukrainian private vertically integrated group DTEK, lost UAH 19.648 billion in 2014 compared to net profit of UAH 2.98 billion a year ago, which is linked to military activities and continued decline in the economy.

KIEV, March 13 – The present macroeconomic conditions do not allow Ukraine to expect GDP growth in 2014, Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak said.

SIMFEROPOL, March 14 - ChornomorNaftoGaz, which the Crimean authorities plan to nationalize, could be privatized as a result of an open tender in the future, Crimea's First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliyev told Interfax.

KIEV, March 16 - Ukraine in January and February decreased electricity exports by 37.7% or by 371.2 million kilowatt-hours, to 614.7 million kilowatt-hours, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry announced.

KIEV, March 15 – The volume of weapons exports of Ukraine in 2010 totaled $201 million, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported.

KIEV, March 15 – The resumption of the practical realization of a program to construct a new corvette for the Ukrainian Navy in 2012 needs future state financing of at least UAH 2.5 billion, a high-ranking source in the Ukrainian military circles told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, March 15 – Only global investment into Ukrainian oil refineries could radically improve their economic indicators, and not duties on imported fuel - a move considered by Ukrainian authorities - according to director of Mozyr oil refinery (Belarus), Anatoly Kupriyanov.

KIEV, March 16 – Dairy and meat companies are to send VAT from the sale of their produce and purchase of milk and meat not to special accounts to pay subsidies to farmers, but to a special fund of the national budget.

KIEV, March 15 – Naftokhimik Prykarpattia (Nadvirna oil refinery, Ivano-Frankivsk region) expects to build a diesel fuel hydro-fining complex by late 2011, according to information attached to a company's annual report posted in the information dispensing system of the State Commission for Securities and the Stock Market.