KIEV, Sept. 13 – The state-owned Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant Company on Sept. 17 is to sign a contract on the building of a new safe confinement with France's NOVARKA and a contract on the completion of the building of the waste nuclear fuel storage facility two with U.S. Holtec, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development spokesman Anton Usov, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 13 – Ukraine is not planning by late 2007 to resume commercial supplies of its electricity to Russia due to the absence of surplus electricity on the domestic market, Andriy Turos, UkrInterEnergo deputy director for electricity exports, told the press in Kiev on Wednesday.

"Electricity to Russia by the end of the year will be supplied in minimum volumes, needed to cover technical overflows between power grids.

KIEV, Sept. 13 – Ukrainian steel mills and the Industry and Economy ministries are completing talks with the U.S. Department of Trade on a new agreement on the suspension of the antidumping investigation into Ukrainian-made cut-to-length carbon steel plates, said Ihor Kirichenko, the ministry’s mining sector department head.

KIEV, Sept. 11 - Mittal Steel Kryviy Rih (formerly Kryvorizhstal) has increased shipments to Russia since June to meet increasing demand from the building industry, Andriy Kytytsia, the Ukrainian steel mill's export manager, told Interfax.

LONDON, Sept. 12 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that it raised its long- and short-term counterparty credit ratings on Ukraine-based Ukrsotsbank to 'B/B' from 'B-/C'.

KIEV, Sept. 12 ??“ Investment Options Group LLC (the United States) bought a 95% stake in Berdiansky Zhatki (Zaporizhia region) on Sept. 4, the Berdiansky Zhatki announced.

KIEV, Sept. 12 ??“ Swiss company RosUkrEnergo AG is mulling the purchase of Ukrainian gas supplying companies from former MP Ihor Yeremeyev, Kommersant newspaper reported, citing copies of documents from Austria's Raiffeisen Investment AG, which owns a 50% stake in RosUkrEnergo.

KIEV, Sept. 13 - Ukraine and Russia on Wednesday failed to reach an agreement on prices for natural gas that is to be supplied in October through the end of the year, Ukraine??™s energy and fuel ministry reported.

KIEV, Sept. 13 - The national nuclear energy generation company EnergoAtom is going to master a maneuver regime of nuclear power plant operation.

MOSCOW/KIEV, Sept. 13 - ROSNO Insurance Company has set up an affiliate company in Ukraine with statutory capital of about $6 million, according to a company announcement carried by Interfax-Ukraine.