KIEV, July 13 - Ukraine??™s national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans to focus on domestic energy extraction and will reduce investments in overseas energy extraction projects, Naftogaz chairman Oleksandr Bolkisev said Thursday.

KIEV, July 13 - Ukraine??™s national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans to clear $381 million natural gas debt it owes to RosUkrEnergo for gas supplies by the end of August, Naftogaz chairman Oleksandr Bolkisev said Thursday.

LONDON, July 11 - Moody's Investors Service has assigned a (P)B3 corporate family rating (previously called senior implied rating) to Stirol, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

KIEV, July 12 ??“ Kiev's economic court of appeals, responding to a claim filed by the Prosecutor General's Office, has frozen a bare majority stake in Nikopol ferroalloy plant in Dnipropetrovsk region.

KIEV, July 13 ??“ Transport and customs offices of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova believe that international cargo transit transportation between their countries should be simplified.

KYIV, June 12 – Ukrhydroenergo, which as a result of Russian attacks on the energy sector during 2023-2024 experienced 118 missile attacks on its plants and lost 45% of hydro generation, plans to restore 1 GW of capacity by the beginning of the winter period, company's general director Ihor Syrota said.

KYIV, June 12 - The German company GOLDBECK SOLAR Investment and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are creating the joint venture GOLDBECK SOLAR Investment Ukraine to implement construction projects in Ukraine for a 500 MW solar power plant over the next three to five years.

KYIV, June 13 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in a June report lowered the forecast for the wheat harvest in Ukraine by 8.5% - to 19.5 million tons due to dry weather conditions and increased the corn harvest by 2.6% - to 27.7 million tons.

KYIV, June 13 - The Vitagro group of companies will attract EUR 110 million in additional investments in the development of its biomethane plant in Khmelnytsky region and increase its capacity by 5 million cubic meters at the time of the start of biomethane production, said Serhiy Savchuk, director of development and investment of the Vitagro group of companies, at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin on Wednesday.

KYIV, June 13 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) plans to revise the forecast of macro indicators in July due to the worsening situation in the energy sector, in particular, an increase in the deficit in the system, NBU Governor Andriy Pyshnyy said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.