KIEV, April 10 – It is unlikely that Ukraine’s counterclaim against the decision of the High Court of Justice in London on Russia's claims to the $3 billion bond debt would be successful, according to lawyers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 10 - Ukraine’s national gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny is getting more optimistic over an upcoming ruling by a court in Stockholm in a gas supply dispute with Russian gas company Gazprom, Andriy Kobolev, the head of the state-owned company, said.

KIEV, April 10 – National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeria Gontareva tendered her resignation, effective May 10, on Monday following years of intense political pressure, a hate campaign and even death threats at a time when the country is enduring a deep recession.

KIEV, April 8 – The operation of the Vojany-Uzhgorod interconnector between Ukraine and Slovakia in two modes will be ensured thanks to physical switching of compressors and thanks to 'virtual reverse supplies' (backhaul), Naftogaz Ukrayiny Development Director Yuriy Vitrenko told reporters in Kiev.

KIEV, April 7 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is providing additional resources to support Ukraine's energy efficiency drive with the launch of the EUR75 million Ukraine Residential Energy Efficiency Financing Facility (IQ energy).

TOKYO, April 7 – Japan is ready to provide a $60 million grant to modernize turbines of Trypilska and Zmiyivska thermal power plants, part of state-run Centrenergo, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told reporters in Tokyo on Thursday.

KIEV, April 7 – The Russian Federation is trying to achieve increased gas prices and deprive Ukraine of transit revenues through the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, according to Naftogaz Ukrayiny Development Director Yuriy Vitrenko.

KIEV, April 8 – The Metallurgprom Association (Dnipropetrovsk) and the Federation of Metal Companies of Ukraine have sent a list of top-priority anti-crisis measures to resolve problems of Ukrainian exporters of the metal and mining sector jeopardizing Ukraine's economic and industrial growth potential. The problems require urgent attention by the relevant national Ukrainian authorities.

KIEV, April 8 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will issue up to EUR 150 million in debt financing to support existing corporate clients in the period of economic and political instability in Ukraine.

MOSCOW, April 10 - Russia's state nuclear power corporation Rosatom has concerns that politics will affect deliveries of fuel for Ukrainian nuclear power plants involving the U.S. company Westinghouse, Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko said in Moscow on Thursday.