KYIV, Oct 24 – Potential participants of a consortium to manage the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS) want to fully control its operations, Board Chairman of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy Andriy Kobolev told reporters at the Oil & Gas conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

KYIV, Oct 24 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny hopes the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce will make a decision regarding supplies of gas by Russia's Gazprom to uncontrolled areas of Donbas in the lawsuit concerning the gas supply contract, Naftogaz Head Andriy Kobolev told reporters Tuesday.

KYIV, Oct 24 – Director General of Mykolaiv alumina plant LLC Dmytro Myrny told employees about the change of the owner of the enterprise: Switzerland's Glencore is acquiring the plant from Russia's RusAl.

KYIV, Oct 24 - The space agencies of Ukraine and Canada are planning to secure their partnership plans in the world space market by signing a bilateral memorandum of understanding in cooperation in the field of exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes, a well-informed source in the space sector has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Oct 25 – Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) under the guidance of prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) have notified former MP Mykola Martynenko and his possible accomplice, the head of a structural unit of Energoatom, of the suspicion of seizing the property of this state-owned enterprise.

KYIV, Oct 25 - Ukrzaliznytsia intends to purchase ten new high-speed electric trains in 2018-2020, acting chairman of the company Yevhen Kravtsov has said.

KYIV, Oct 25 - The decision to raise tariffs for rail freight traffic in Ukraine by 15% will come into force in the coming days, Head of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov told journalists after a cabinet meeting.

KYIV, Oct 25 – The state-owned nuclear power generating company Energoatom and Japan's Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding in the nuclear power industry with a view to developing cooperation on upgrading turbo generator equipment at Ukraine's nuclear power plants (NPP).

KYIV, Oct 25 - The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) intends to put up 68.01% of PJSC Zaporizhia Aluminum Combine (ZAlK) on sale in early 2018.

According to a press release of the SPF, with reference to head of the agency Vitaliy Trubarov, ZAlK sale is scheduled for the first months of 2018.

KYIV, Oct 25 - The government approved a list of regional development investment projects worth more than UAH 98 million to be financed by the State Regional Development Fund, the pres service reported.