KIEV, July 1 – The signing of the economic part of the Association Agreement with the European Union takes into account Ukrainian interests in the approval and realization of the programs and strategies of the EU for the development of the energy infrastructure, Naftogaz Ukrayiny said.

KIEV, June 27 – The computing equipment seized from Data-IX UA Ltd. by tax investigators has nothing to do with the work of the Russian headquartered VKontakte online social network, according to Mykola Kovtunenko, the head of the press service of the Income and Tax Ministry's main department.

KHARKIV, June 27 – Shell and Ukrgazvydobuvannia have started building a site to drill a second exploratory well in Kharkiv region under a production sharing agreement, the press service of Shell in Kharkiv and Donetsk regions has reported.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 27 – Ukraine is close to concluding contracts with European companies on the storage by them of natural gas in Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities, according to Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky.

KIEV, June 27 – The state-run Pivdenny Machine Building Plant (Pivdenmash, Dnipropetrovsk) has resumed the delivery of Zenit rockets for the next launches in the Land Launch program from Baikonur space center, following upgrades carried out after an investigation into the cause of February's failed launch attempt of an Intelsat-27 spacecraft.

KIEV, July 1 – The Eurocar plant producing Skoda cars (Solomonove, Zakarpattia region), which is part of the Atoll Holding Group, has started producing a new Skoda Octavia third generation model, reads a posting on the plant's Web site.

KIEV, July 1 – Westinghouse has sent the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation its proposals for improving the design of its fuel assemblies for Ukraine's nuclear power plants, Nick Shulyak, business development manager at Westinghouse Electric UK, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 1 – Chornomorsky Shipbuilding Yard (Mykolaiv) has finished building a multi-purpose sea tug under an order from Latvia's PKL Flote, the shipyard has reported.

KIEV, June 27 – The Antimonopoly Committee has permitted DTEK, the largest private vertically integrated energy holding in Ukraine, to buy controlling stakes in OAO Obukhovskaya colliery group and in OAO Donskoy Anthracite (all based in Rostov region, Russia).

BRUSSELS, June 27 – Brussels highly evaluates a bill aimed at achieving the liberalization of the electricity market of Ukraine, which is "a good step forward," EU officials say.