KIEV, March 31 – The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has reduced spending on the maintenance of prosecuting agencies by UAH 137 million, including UAH 87 million on wage payments, as well as spending on service vehicles and capital expenditures, acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 1 - The warming that came to Ukraine allowed some regions, mainly in the south of the country, to resume sowing suspended in March because of cold and snowy weather.

VYSHGOROD (Kiev region), April 1 – Ukrhydroenergo, which operates all of the major hydroelectric power plants on the Ukrainian sections of the Dnipro and Dniester rivers, plans to raise funds from international banks to create new generating facilities, Director General Ihor Syrota said at a press conference in Vyshgorod on Monday.

DONETSK, April 2 – Authorities of Donetsk region are calling for the redistribution the volumes of coal sales due to the fatal fire at the Vuhlehirska Thermal Power Plant, as the stopped plant consumed over 200,000 tons of fuel every month.

KIEV, April 2 – Companies of the metal sector and the fuel and energy sector have posted the largest losses in Ukraine, Income and Tax Minister Oleksandr Klymenko said.

KIEV, April 2 – Ukraine will finish the preparation of the documents for the project for the extension of the Odessa-Brody pipeline to Plock (Poland) by the end of April, Ukrtransnafta Oleksandr Lazorko said on Tuesday.

KIEV, April 2 - Ukraine on Tuesday defended its growing imports of natural gas from Europe by dismissing allegations made by Russia’s Gazprom that the imports looked like “fraudulent schemes.”

KIEV, April 2 - The National Commission for Energy Regulation from April 2012 is to retain the ceiling price for natural gas for industrial consumers and budget-funded organizations at UAH 3,509 per 1,000 cubic meters.

KIEV, April 2 – The United States has provided $67.5 million for the construction of a nuclear facility at Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology in exchange for Ukraine's giving up the use of highly enriched uranium.

KIEV, March 30 – Two Kiev-based banks, Bank Khreschatyk and Eurogasbank, have announced their withdrawal from the Association of Ukrainian Banks one day after the AUB president issued a statement calling for a change in the leadership of the central bank.