KIEV, April 27 - Westinghouse Electric Sweden will supply six batches of nuclear fuel to National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom for Ukrainian nuclear power plants in 2017, Interim Chief Executive Officer and President of Westinghouse Electric Company Jose Emeterio Gutierrez said.

KIEV, April 27 - Ukraine will pay off by the middle of May a $300 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development it borrowed last year for natural gas imports, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk said Wednesday.

KIEV, April 26 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is mulling the possibility of providing funds to four or five Ukrainian pharmaceutical companies, Senior EBRD Banker Iryna Marchenko said.

KIEV, April 27 – The cost of an 'Easter basket' in 2016 will be some UAH 349, which is UAH 20 more than last year, Agrarian Economics Institute Director Yuriy Lupenko said.

KIEV, April 24 – The Ukrainian government has made the procedure for employing foreigners clearer and more transparent, Tetiana Lezhukh, senior partner of Lezhukh, Siamina and Partners law firm, said.

KIEV, April 27 – Poland is ready to support the configuration change procedure at Burshtyn Energy Island through the disconnection of one or three units of the Burshtyn thermal power plant and their conversion to operate as part of the Ukrainian power grid, the National Energy Company Ukrenergo reported.

KIEV, April 27 - The total sum of wage arrears in Ukraine in March 2015 saw a 2.7% rise, the State Statistics Service reported.

According to the service, wage arrears on April 1, 2015 amounted to UAH 1.617 billion, or 5% of the monthly wage fund for March, while as of early 2015 it was 22.5%.

KIEV, April 24 – Zuyivska thermal power plant (TPP) of DTEK Vostokenergo LLC has started the reconstruction of power unit No. 3 worth UAH 467.9 million, the press service of DTEK reported.

KIEV, April 24 – Wind Power LLC, part of the largest private energy holding DTEK, has commissioned 35 wind turbines of the second phase of Botiyeve wind power station (Zaporizhia region), boosting its capacity to 200 MW, the press service of DTEK has reported.

KIEV, April 25 – Ukraine will use borrowing from the U.S., international financial institutions and capital markets to pay at least $9 billion in debts, First Deputy Finance Minister Anatoliy Miarkovsky said.