KIEV, June 22 -- Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has assigned its 'B+' long-term corporate credit rating, and 'uaA' Ukraine national scale rating, to Ukraine-based steel pipes and rail wheels producer Interpipe Ltd., reads a press release distributed by S&P.

PARIS, June 22 - The political crisis in Ukraine has had little impact on the national banking system, says Standard & Poor's (S&P).

KIEV, June 22 - The Antimonopoly Committee will fine UkrGaz-Energo and national Naftogaz Ukrayiny for coordinated anti-competitive actions on the natural gas market.

KIEV, June 22 - The creation of UkrGaz-Energo did not increase the monopolization of the natural gas market, Oleksiy Kostusev, head of Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee, believes.

KIEV, June 23 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, successfully ended negotiations on additional gas supplies into Ukrainian underground storage facilities, necessary to make it through the fall-winter season.

KYIV, May 25 - United Mining and Chemical Company, under whose management Vilnohirsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine (GOK, Dnipropetrovsk region) and Irshansk Mining and Processing Combine (Zhytomyr region) were transferred, is actively negotiating about sale of products of the Irshansk GOK branch to Western partners and plans to resume the extraction and enrichment of ilmenite concentrate at it at the level of 18,000 tonnes per month by the end of this year.

KYIV, May 25 – Ukrenergo expects the resumption of electricity exports to Europe in the coming days, possibly already this weekend, Volodymyr Kudrytsky, Chairman of the Ukrenergo Board, has said.

KYIV, May 25 – Hitachi Energy planned to take part in a tender for the supply of BESS (battery energy storage system) as part of the project of PrJSC Ukrhydroenergo for the construction of Energy Storage 212 MW, Oleksandr Kovalev, head of the department for automation of electrical substations and grids of Hitachi Energy Ukraine LLC, said.

KYIV, May 25 – A combination of the Kyiv Security Compact and commitments similar to those made by the United States to Israel could be a perfect form of security guarantees for Ukraine, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak has said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency.

KYIV, May 23 – The physical transit of gas through an entry point to the gas transmission system (GTS) of Ukraine – the gas measuring station Sudzha is about 50 million cubic meters per day, while the paid capacity is 77.2 million cubic meters per day, CEO of the GTS Operator of Ukraine Serhiy Makogon has said.