KIEV, Feb. 22 - The Ukrainian state energy company EnergoAtom has completed a first delivery of nuclear fuel made at the Westinghouse facilities in Sweden to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP).

KIEV, Feb. 22 – The value of orders placed by Pivdenne Design Bureau in 2015 at Pivdenmash (both based in Dnipropetrovsk) is estimated at over UAH 430 million, managers of the bureau have told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – State Enterprise Antonov and Saudi Arabia's Taqnia have signed an agreement of cooperation in organization of production of new An-32 multipurpose aircraft with a carrying capacity of 9.2 tons in Saudi Arabia, Antonov reported on Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – The cost of a project to construct synthesis gas facilities and to switch public joint-stock company Odessa Port-Side Plant to consuming this gas has been assessed at $1.5 billion, acting Director General of subsidiary of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny - Vuhlesyntezgaz Ukrayiny - Andriy Suprun has said.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Ukraine is holding talks on using credit funds from the China Development Bank to finance the construction of interconnection gas pipelines with Poland, said Serniy Alekseyenko, chief adviser to Board Chairman of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – The state could sign a mutually beneficial deal with the Privat group on the creation of a large vertically integrated oil complex on the basis of the largest oil extracting company Ukrnafta and oil refining company Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk Oil Refinery), Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said.

KIEV, Feb. 23 - The Ukrainian central bank moved to impose currency controls as the hryvnia plunged another 10 percent against the dollar on Monday -- a move analysts said would do little to bolster the currency, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Ukraine on Monday accused Russia's Gazprom on Monday of failing to supply natural gas that was paid for in advance.

Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national energy company, asked Gazprom to explain why it had delivered only 47 million cubic meters of gas on February 22, which is short of 114 million cu m that had been ordered.

KIEV, Feb. 21 - Ukrainian-Iranian InterNaftGasProm Pars (INGP Pars) and Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company) on February 20 signed a contract on the development of three oil fields, according to Press TV, the Iranian state TV channel.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – The Finance Ministry has proposed to increase the minimum wholesale and retail prices of vodka and liquors by 26.4%, a source in the sector has told Interfax-Ukraine.