KIEV, July 17 – The business court of Kiev has denied claims of private joint-stock company UkrGaz-Energo to 3.993 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas in Ukrtransgaz underground gas storage facilities.

The decision is stipulated in court ruling of July 7, a copy of which has been sent to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 17 – The reconstruction of Poshtova Square in Kiev will be conducted with traffic limited to a minimum, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

"We set a task for builders and designers to restrict traffic to a minimum," Azarov reported on Tuesday while visiting the Desnianska water station of PJSC Kyivvodokanal," the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reported.

KIEV, July 18 – Ukraine hopes for cooperation with Chinese investors in the construction of a hydroelectric pumped storage power plant in Kaniv, Cherkasy region.

KIEV, July 18 – The Ukrainian government hopes that projects to transfer Ukrainian thermal power plants from natural gas to coal under an agreement with China could be launched as early as in 2013.

KIEV, July 18 – The reform of the rail sector has nothing to do with privatization, according to Director General of the State Rail Transport Administration of Ukraine (Ukrzaliznytsia) Volodymyr Kozak.

KIEV, July 19 – DTEK has signed a framework agreement with Russia's INTER RAO UES for electricity supplies to Russia, DTEK said in a company statement.

MOSCOW, July 19 – A working group involving experts from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan should decide the fate of the Dnepr project for the use of converted RS-20 heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles (Satan, under Western classification) in space launch programs, said Vladimir Popovkin, chief of the Russian federal space agency Roscosmos.

KIEV, July 19 - The World Bank has downgraded its forecast for Ukraine's GDP growth in 2012 to 2%, down from 2.5%, Senior Economist of the World Bank Representative in Ukraine Ruslan Piontkovsky said at a press conference on Thursday.

KIEV, July 19 – The government has given up the idea of canceling value added tax on imports of crude oil to Ukraine for processing at Ukrainian oil refineries, according to Volodymyr Makukha, the deputy energy and coal industry ministry.

KIEV, July 19 – Kyivvodokanal, jointly with open joint-stock company Kyivproject, has drawn up a draft program on the upgrade and development of water supply and sewage networks in Kiev by 2020, Kyivvodokanal reported on Monday.