SIMFEROPOL, April 8 – Cemil Cicek, chairman of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, said that relations between Ukraine and Turkey have achieved the level of a strategic partnership and that this is of benefit to the citizens of both countries, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

BAKU, April 8 – Kiev and Baku are discussing the supply of Azeri gas to Ukraine, Azeri Industry and Energy Minister Natig Aliyev said.

KIEV, April 5 – Moldova has illegally taken 30 million kilowatt hours of electricity from the Ukrainian power grid since early April, reads a statement of National Energy Company Ukrenergo, which provides for technical parallel operation of the Ukrainian power grid.

KIEV, April 5 – The International Monetary Fund is still waiting for Ukraine’s implementation of the measures agreed for the resumption of the stand-by program, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said.

BRUSSELS, April 5 – The first batch of melange, a highly toxic liquid rocket fuel component, which was stored at a military base in eastern Ukraine, has been shipped to Russia for disposal, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

ODESSA, April 6 – Vinnytsia-based Energoinvest is planning to complete construction of the 1.786 megawatt Sloboda-Bushanska solar power plant in June, the company's director, Volodymyr Zhytnyk, said at the CI Solar-2012 conference in Odessa.

KIEV, April 6 – The Ukrainian government has approved a decision to introduce a floating excise duty on fuel, Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Makukha said.

KIEV, April 6 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has transferred 31 out of 48 stakes in regional gas supply companies to the State Property Fund to privatize them at tenders, the fund's press service reported on Thursday.

KIEV, April 8 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny could challenge an intermediate decision by the tribunal of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce on a claim by Swiss-based RosUkrEnergo gas trader against JSC Naftogaz Ukrayiny for payment by the Ukrainian company of $197 million to the plaintiff in the Svea Court of Appeal, according to lawyers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 8 – Kharkiv’s Turboatom, Ukraine’s sole producer of turbine equipment for hydroelectric, thermal and nuclear power plants, signed a contract with Eurasian Energy Corporation (EEC, Kazakhstan) in March on the shipment of equipment for unit six of Kazakhstan's Aksu thermal power plant.