KIEV, April 21 – The Individuals Deposit Guarantee Fund in 2016 sold assets of insolvent banks for UAH 3.2 billion, including 51% of revenue from selling claims to credits, the fund reported on its website.

KIEV, April 21 - Environmental specialists say they are alarmed by the cutting of forests in Ukraine's nature reserves and have called on local councils to approve the introduction of moratoriums on cutting of forests in the nature reserves of their regions.

KIEV, April 21 – Former Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn has joined the supervisory board of Naftogaz Ukrayiny as a representative of the presidential administration.

KIEV, April 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine effective April 22 has decided to decrease its refinancing rate to 19% from the current 22% set on September 25, 2015 when the central bank decreased it from 27%.

KIEV, April 21 – A new plant of France's Nexans, a cable manufacturer, will start operating in Brody (Lviv region) in 2017, of Lviv Regional Administration Governor Oleh Syniutka said.

KIEV, April 22 - American TransGas Development Systems is planning to build three plants in Ukraine for $10 billion to produce motor fuels from coal, TransGas Founder and President Adam Victor said in an interview with Business newspaper.

KIEV, April 23 - Some 300 people who had taken part in a city rally for federalization are blocking the office buildings and structural divisions of Krasnodonvuhillia coal company (Luhansk region) belonging to Metinvest group.

KIEV, April 24 – The Cabinet of Ministers has allocated a land plot of 45 hectares in the exclusion zone on the territory of Chernobyl nuclear power plant to build the central waste nuclear fuel storage facility, said Yuriy Nedashkovsky head of National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom.

BRATISLAVA, April 24 - Ukraine could sign a deal on Monday allowing the shipment of up to 10 billion cubic meters of gas a year from Slovakia, ministers from the two countries said, although Ukraine says its neighbor could pump three times that much, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 22 - Ukraine imported 2.254 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas from Russia and Germany for $958.842 million in February, paying $390 per 1,000 cubic meters for gas from the latter and $426.1 per 1,000 cubic meters from the former.