KIEV, Oct. 13 - Ukraine increased natural gas reserves in its underground gas storage facilities by 0.15%, or by about 25.6 million cubic meters, over the past seven days, data released by Gas Storage Europe, a non-profit Brussels-based organization that provides energy statistics to the EU, indicate.

KIEV, Oct. 11 - The European Union will help Ukraine to finance modernization of its natural gas transportation system, which moves the bulk of Russia's natural gas to markets in Europe, the government reported.

KIEV, Oct. 11 - Ukraine will ask the International Monetary Fund to drop its demand that it hike natural gas prices for households amid expected massive production of cheaper gas in the country, Economy Minister Ihor Prasolov said.

KIEV, Oct. 10 - Power generation by all nuclear power plants run by EnergoAtom fell by 6.9% or by 4,523 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) year-over-year in January-September 2013, to 61.371 billion kWh, the company told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 13 - The deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade in goods increased by 81.4% year-over-year in January-August, to $8.105 billion, the State Statistics Service said on Wednesday.

Exports of goods grew by 39.4%, to $43.977 billion, and imports went up by 44.6%, to $52.082 billion.

The ratio of the coverage of imports by export was 0.84, compared with 0.88 in January-August 2010.

KIEV, Oct. 13 – The National Bank of Ukraine, as a part of its efforts to combat money laundering, is pushing banks to stir up correspondence with clients in order identify banking service consumers.

MOSCOW, Oct. 12 – Russia's Gazprom has yet to confirm a request by Ukraine's Naftogaz to reduce gas supplies to 27 billion cubic meters in 2012, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Minister Yuriy Boyko told reporters.

KIEV, Oct. 11 - Ukraine's unified power system produced 135.942 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in January-September, 9.7% more than 2009, the Fuel and Energy Ministry reported.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev and representatives of South Korea's Hyundai have discussed the supply to Ukraine of high-speed interregional electric trains, in particular as part of the preparations for the Euro 2012 European Football Championship, Kliuyev's press service reported.

MOSCOW, Oct. 12 - Moody's Investors Service has changed the outlook to stable from negative on the B3 long-term foreign currency deposit ratings of fourteen Ukrainian banks. The outlook on three Ukrainian banks' outstanding foreign currency debt ratings of B1 has also been changed to stable from negative.