KYIV, May 30 – The coordination council on reforming the fuel and energy complex has proposed that public joint-stock company Trunk Pipelines of Ukraine are transferred to management of national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny with the start of independent operations of the company in 2020, a source in the government has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, May 30 – The Naftogaz supervisory board has decided to recognize the achievements of the company's employees with bonuses for winning the transit case in the Stockholm arbitration process against Russia's Gazprom.

KYIV, May 30 - The Cabinet of Ministers has prolonged public service obligations (PSO) for the sale of natural gas for the needs of the population and heating companies at a reduced price until the end of July.

KYIV, May 30 – President Petro Poroshenko has ordered that top managers of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy do their best to ensure the recovery of $2.6 billion debt of Russia's Gazprom and the arrival of the money to Ukraine awarded by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.

KYIV, May 31 – Ukrzaliznytsia is mulling the possibility of buying rail cars of Spanish Talgo to make the speed of the Kyiv-Odesa Intercity+ train higher, the press service of the company has reported, referring to acting Board Chairman Yevhen Kravtsov.

KIEV, May 29 – Ukraine is ready to hold consultations initiated by Russia as part of the trade dispute within the World Trade Organization, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry said on Monday.

MOSCOW, May 30 – Yandex is taking legal advice following a raid of its offices in Ukraine on Monday and accusations its employees passed personal data about Ukrainian users to the Russian special services.

MOSCOW, May 30 - VTB Group is considering the scenario of closing its business in Ukraine and estimates its losses at 25-27 billion rubles if this scenario is realized, the head of Russian state bank VTB, Andrei Kostin, said in an interview with the Financial Times.

KIEV, May 28 - Consumption of gas in Ukraine contracted 4.7% year-on-year - or by 1.305 billion cubic meters (bcm) - to 26.400 bcm in the first four months of this year, the country's Energy and Coal Industry Ministry reported.

RIVNE region, May 29 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans are to import 1.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian natural gas this month, Yevhen Bakulin, head of the state holding, told reporters in Rivne Region on Tuesday.