KYIV, March 29 – The central spent nuclear fuel storage facility is 72%-ready, President of National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom Yuriy Nedashkovsky told reporters on Thursday.

KIEV, March 31 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers at a meeting on Wednesday postponed Naftogaz Ukrayiny's mandate to raise the price of gas it sells to households and heating supply companies.

KIEV, March 30 – Ukraine's State Property Fund intends to announce an auction on the privatization of public joint-stock company Odessa Port-Side Plant in the second half of May and hold it in June, Fund head Ihor Bilous said.

KIEV, March 30 – Ukrainian businesses jointly with the Federation of Employers of Ukraine want to ask the Cabinet of Ministers to start negotiations on amendments to the Ukraine-EU Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA).

KIEV, March 31 – The National Bank of Ukraine plans to "unleash its fury" on a subsidiary bank of a Russian banking group, Leonid Antonenko, director of the registration and licensing department at the NBU, wrote on his Facebook page.

KIEV, March 31 – The National Bank of Ukraine has predicted that Ukraine's GDP will fall by 7.5% in 2015, with inflation being 30%, while in 2016 GDP will grow by 3% and inflation will fall to 13-14%.

MOSCOW, March 31 - Russia will extend gas price discounts for Ukraine into the second quarter, TASS news agency reported President Vladimir Putin as saying on Tuesday, but any further decisions would be taken in three months and depend on the price of oil, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 31 – The National Bank of Ukraine is working on amendments to the legislative base to allow it to withdraw banking licenses from credit and financial institutions for speculating on the currency market, NBU Governor Stepan Kubiv said.

PARIS, March 31 – The base-case scenario for the further relations between Russia, Ukraine and their international partners will be a trend for a gradual de-escalation of the crisis, according to Standard & Poor's.

KIEV, March 28 – The number of claims received by Ukrainian insurance companies after the recent extreme snowfalls has grown by 10-15%, participants of the insurance market reported.