KIEV, May 13 – Ukraine and Pakistan are working on plans to develop cooperation in outer space, the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 13 - The operator of trunk oil pipelines – public joint-stock company Ukrtransnafta – has started pumping crude oil that fills sections of pipelines that are not used for oil pumping now to its oil refinery (Kremenchuk oil refinery) as the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has no certain position regarding the issue.

KIEV, May 14 - Ukraine’s biggest power and mining company DTEK increased coal output in the first quarter, but said recession was “imminent” amid growing confrontation between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian law enforcement.

KIEV, May 14 - Ukraine’s SBU security service on Wednesday began investigation of an explosion near a natural gas pipeline that is moving a bulk of Russian gas supplies to the European Union, local prosecutor office reported.

The blast, which occurred about 30 meters from the pipeline in the Ivano Frankivsk region late Tuesday, did not damage the pipeline, which continues to operate at normal capacity.

KIEV, May 13 - Ukraine's United Energy System reduced electricity production 3.4% year-on-year in January-April, to 68.181 billion kilowatt-hours, an Energy and Coal Industry Ministry source told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 13 - Spanish low-cost airline Vueling Airlines starting on May 28 will begin flights from Barcelona to Zhuliany Kiev International Airport.

According to the airport, flights from Barcelona to Kiev from May 28 to September 20 will be operated on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and from September 24 to September 27 on Tuesdays and Fridays. Flights from Kiev to Barcelona from May 29 to September 21 will be operated on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and on September 25-28 on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

KIEV, May 14 – Sales of new passenger cars in Ukraine in April 2013 came to around 26,000, which is 33% up on April 2012 and 35% up on March 2013, the AUTO-Consulting information-analytical group said.

KIEV, May 13 - Ukraine hopes to sign a loan agreement this September with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank worth $308 million on funding the modernization of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky said.

KIEV, May 13 - Germany's RWE is interested in using Ukraine's underground gas storage facilities, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky said.

KIEV, May 14 - Creative Group, one of Ukraine's largest sunflower oil producers, has decided to postpone its potential eurobond issue scheduled for late April.