TIRASPOL, Dec. 25 – The president of the unrecognized Transdniestria Moldovan Republic, Yevgeny Shevchuk, has said that the authorities are ready to provide at least Odessa region with electricity generated by Moldova's state district power plant.

KIEV, Dec. 26 – Italy's Eni and France's Electricite de France (EDF) have submitted an application for signing a production sharing agreement to develop the Foroske gas field, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky said at a press conference in Kiev.

KIEV, Dec. 26 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Russia's Gazprom have decided to move a part of payment for natural gas supplied in 2013 to March 2014, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky said.

KIEV, Dec. 26 – The government will extend subsidies on the price of electricity for ferroalloy plants into 2014, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov promised.

LONDON/KIEV, Dec. 26 - Standard & Poor's has changed the outlook on its "B-" long-term foreign- and local currency ratings assigned to Ukraine to stable from negative.

KIEV, Dec. 26 - Ukraine and ExxonMobil delayed by another month the signing of the production sharing agreement on a major Black Sea natural gas field, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said.

KIEV, Dec. 25 – Ukraine expects to continue cooperation with the International Monetary Fund and positive negotiations with the World Trade Organization, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, Dec. 25 – The administration of ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih steel mill in Dnipropetrovsk region, has filed a claim in court to demand that the information contained in an open letter to the mill's trade union organization be recognized as misleading and damaging to the company's business reputation and to ask the defendant to issue a retraction.

KIEV, Dec. 26 – Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky plans to work with Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko (earlier energy and coal industry minister) as one team and he plans to bring the project on the construction of an LNG-terminal to the logical end.

KIEV, Dec. 26 – The largest Ukrainian fuel traders set prices of fuel on the retail market too high via the increased markups, the Antimonopoly Committee said.