KIEV, June 10 - The average customs value of gas imported by Ukraine in May was $405.74 per 1,000 cubic meters, which is 2.3% lower than in April ($415.12 per 1,000 cubic meters), according to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.

SVITLODARSK, June 10 – Over UAH 100 million is needed to repair Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant of Centrenergo, which was damaged in a fire in March, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky has said.

KIEV, June 11 - U.S. chemical giant DuPont launched a seed plant in Ukraine on Tuesday designed to help farmers increase harvests with more productive seeds, Reuters reported citing the company.

KIEV, June 11 - Vissarion Kim, acting president of EnergoAtom, Ukraine's state-owned nuclear monopoly, has been charged with abuse of office, Interior Ministry, Serhiy Burlakov told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, June 11 – The State Property Fund plans to receive around UAH 4 billion from the privatization of controlling stakes in six regional electricity supply companies and a power generating company - Donbasenergo, SPF head Oleksandr Riabchenko said.

KIEV, June 11 – The introduction of floating excise duties for fuel in the conditions of a sharp fall in oil prices could cause negative consequences for the domestic market, according to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

KIEV, June 8 – The Economic Development and Trade Ministry plans in a month to submit to the cabinet of ministers a state program for the development of the passenger car building industry for the period until 2020, Volodymyr Hornik, the deputy head of the basic sector development department at the ministry, told reporters.

KIEV, June 8 - Ukraine has sentenced two North Korean trade mission employees to eight years in prison each for spying.

Ukrainian Security Service officers exposed the two Koreans while they were attempting to gain access to classified information, segodnya.ua reported on Friday.

KHARKIV, June 11 – The oil company Shell said does not plan to extract shale gas in Ukraine as a part of the realization of a Product Sharing Agreement on the division of hydrocarbons extracted on the Yuzovska field (Kharkiv and Donetsk regions).

KIEV, June 10 – EnergoAtom plans in June to raise UAH400 million of credits to pay its current debt to Russia's OAO TVEL for nuclear fuel supplied in 2009, the company's president, Yuriy Nedashkovsky, told the press on Tuesday.