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.

KIEV, April 22 – The Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities plans in 2014 to obtain the first tranche of EUR 200 million as part of a loan from the European Investment Bank worth a total of EUR 800 million, which will be used to upgrade heating, water supply and drainage systems.

KIEV, April 23 – The state-owned stake in public joint-stock company Donbasenergo, a power generating company, of 60.773% has been included in a list of companies that will be sold in 2013.

KIEV, April 24 – The directorate for construction and management of the Air Express national project and other infrastructure projects in Kiev region has selected China National Machinery Industry Complete Engineering Corporation to design the blueprints and carry out construction work on the project on the creation of railway passenger lines between Kiev and Boryspil International Airport.

KIEV, Aug. 24 - Ukraine will sign by the end of August a production sharing agreement (PSA) with an ExxonMobil-led consortium over development of a major offshore natural gas deposit in the Black Sea, an official said Wednesday.

KIEV, April 23 - Ukraine cut imports of Russian natural gas by half year-on-year in January-February 2012 to 6.173 billion cubic meters (bcm), the State Statistics Service reported.

Russian gas imports amounted to $2.573 billion in the two-month period, or 21.1% less year-on-year.

LONDON, April 23 – Ukraine will use various forms of privatization with state coalmines and coal-mining companies, State Property Fund Chairman Oleksandr Riabchenko said at the Ukrainian Investment Summit in London on April 18-20.

KIEV, April 23 – Ukraine is to switch from one-year to three-year defense orders for the more effective implementation of the program of rearmament of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Kliuyev said.