KYIV, March 12 – Ukraine will sue Gazprom to seize its assets around the world if the Russian company refuses to pay $2.56 billion penalty ordered by an arbitration court, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KYIV, March 12 – Ukraine’s main battle tank T-84 will soon receive major upgrade that will improve its combat capabilities, the state arms producer Ukroboronprom reported.

KYIV, March 12 – Ukraine will delay design of its advanced short-range ballistic missile system Hrim due to financial and technological difficulties, Pavlo Dehtiarenko, the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, said.

KYIV, March 13 - The Ukrainian authorities support the inclusion of 271 areas in the Emerald network of environmental significance of Europe, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Ostap Semerak said.

KYIV, March 12 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny and its six subsidiaries filed $8 billion in claims against Russia at the tribunal under the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague for illegal seizure of Crimea, Naftogaz Chief Commercial Director Yuriy Vitrenko said.

KYIV, March 12 – A consortium led by Westinghouse Electric Company has said that it is ready to produce fuel assemblies for VVER-440 reactors installed at the Rivne nuclear power plant (NPP).

KYIV, March 12 - Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said that according to a forecast, the country could cut consumption of natural gas to 13 billion cubic meters (bcm) by 2022 from 18 bcm consumed in 2017.

KIEV, March 9 – Ukraine's government held a closed meeting on March 6 where a decision was taken on additional capitalization of two state-owned banks, Oschadbank and Ukreximbank.

KIEV, March 9 – The Ukrainian subsidiary of Russian Sberbank, PJSC Sberbank, said it is not providing services to legal entities and individuals on the basis of ID documents issued in the Ukrainian territories not controlled by the central government.

KIEV, March 10 - Industrial prices in Ukraine in February grew by 3.1%, while in January they fell by 0.3% and in December grew by 3.2%, the State Statistics Service said.