KIEV, Sept. 23 – DTEK private energy holding has welcomed the idea of transferring state-owned blocking stakes in power companies it controls to management by a professional team, which will work on clear and transparent rules corresponding to the appropriate standards of corporate governance of European companies.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - The government of Ukraine has allocated UAH 52.757 million to state coal enterprises to repay wage arrears, increasing funding for the state program of support for coal mines to partially cover the cost for finished products, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Canada's Black Iron claims it faces complications in the implementation of a project to produce and enrich iron ore in Ukraine due to a decline in prices on global markets and an increase in local production royalties.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The State Property Fund has once again revised its privatization schedule for 2015 and now plans to sell 25% of shares in power generating companies DTEK Dniproenergo, DTEK Zakhidenergo and Donbasenergo, and 25% of shares in Sumyoblenergo and Odesaoblenergo on the stock exchange in October.

SIMFEROPOL, Sept. 23 – Crimea has not yet experienced negative consequences of the September 20 halt of the supply of Ukrainian goods to the peninsula, Sergei Aksyonov, the head of Crimea's government, said.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – EnergoAtom hopes that the National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation will agree to finance construction of a UAH 500 million central waste nuclear fuel facility in 2015, EnergoAtom President Yuriy Nedashkovsky said.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – EnergoAtom President Yuriy Nedashkovsky said there are no legal grounds for Russia to file a claim over Ukraine denouncing the intergovernmental agreement on the construction of reactor three and reactor four of Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – Two foreign companies today will start importing gas to Ukraine and selling it to domestic consumers, Naftogaz Ukrayiny chief Andriy Kobolev said.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – KSG Agro (Luxemburg) with assets in Ukraine has signed an agreement on the installation of drop irrigation on 3,000 hectares with China's Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Chine National Corporation for Overseas Economic Cooperation and China-Ukraine International Cooperation Association Ltd.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – A1 Investment Company (Russia, part of Alfa Group) announced it is buying a 24.43% stake in Regal Petroleum plc, a British oil and gas company with assets in Ukraine.