MOSCOW, April 22 - Russian natural gas producer Gazprom said on Wednesday Kiev owed it $174.2 million for gas supplied to eastern Ukraine since the beginning of the year, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, April 21 - A project to evacuate 15,500 tons of highly toxic missile fuel oxidizer known as melange from Ukraine and have it recycled in Russia has been completed successfully, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

KIEV, April 22 - The Ukrainian government has delayed bringing prices of gas for households to an economically justifiable level from 2015-2016 to May 2017 and has set a recommended gradual schedule for the increase in prices, after the realization of which the price will grow by 101.6% over the next three years.

KIEV, April 22 – Sevastopol Marine Plant (Sevastopol, Crimea) says it has not received orders from the Defense Ministry of Russia, particularly an order worth $140 million, about which Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on April 17.

KIEV, April 22 - Ukraine’s nuclear power generating giant EnergoAtom plans to start using nuclear fuel assemblies produced by Westinghouse Electric Company starting next year, EnergoAtom said Tuesday.

KIEV, April 19 - Eco-Optima has completed the construction of Bohorodchany solar plant (Ivano-Frankivsk region) with a capacity of 2.803 MW, Company Deputy Director Yaroslav Shpak told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 22 – The Antimonopoly Committee has permitted the key shareholder in Delta Bank, Mykola Lahun, to gain control over Kiev-based Swedbank.

DONETSK, April 22 – The Prosecutor General's Office in Donetsk region is investigating the alleged non-payment of wages to employees of Donbasaero Airline LLC.

KIEV, April 22 – Ukraine’s largest oil refinery by capacity, Kremenchuk Oil Refinery, will double amount of crude it refines within weeks as the government seeks to protect the sector, an official said Monday.

KIEV, April 20 - One Ukrainian coal miner was killed after a methane explosion ripped through a coal mine in the Dnipropetrovsk region in eastern Ukraine, the emergency situations ministry reported.

The explosion occurred around 12:05 local time Thursday about 390 meters deep inside the Zakhidno-Donbasska coalmine. There are no signs of combustion after the explosion, the ministry said.