KYIV, April 27 – Bill No. 2372, adopted by Verkhovna Rada at first reading, providing for the independence of the nuclear regulator, will allow National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom, after its final approval, to take out an additional loan of EUR 200 million for safety programs, Head of the Rada committee on energy and housing and utility services Andriy Gerus said.

KYIV, April 27 – Rivne NPP is preparing to shut down power unit No. 3 soon due to a predicted increase of balanced capacity limitations for nuclear power plants (NPPs) at the end of April, Energoatom reported.

KIEV, April 27 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny CEO Andriy Kobolev and U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry on April 19 met in Washington, the press service of Naftogaz Ukrayiny reported.

KIEV, April 27 – Raids in the office of Dragon Capital LLC (Kiev, the Ukrainian structure of Dragon Capital) were linked to an employee work hours tracking software declared to be spy software, Dragon Capital has written on its Facebook page.

KIEV, April 25 – Sakhnakhshiri LLC (GIG Group, Tbilisi, Georgia) has won a tender to supply 700,000 tons of coal to Centrenergo, according to the results of an auction held in the ProZorro procurement system.

KIEV, April 25 – ERU Group will supply 218 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas from the resource of Poland's PGNiG S.A. to Ukrtransgaz in 2017, ERU reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, April 25 – Ukraine's higher business court has scheduled a hearing of a counterclaim of Russia's Gazprom against a court ruling to collect a fine and penalty of UAH 172 billion from Gazprom for abuse of monopoly for May 16.

KIEV, April 25 – Ukraine is working on concrete proposals related to the possibility of strengthening the presence of U.S. business in the country to discuss these proposals at the highest level, Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said after a meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

KIEV, April 26 - S&P Global Ratings has raised its long- and short-term counterparty credit ratings on Ukrainian PrivatBank to 'CCC+/C' from 'SD/SD', the outlook is stable.

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.