KYIV, March 16 – Ukraine in the second half of March will draft conditions of a tender to select a partner to manage the gas transport system (GTS) of the country, which will be presented to the government, Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Kistion said.

KYIV, March 16 – The government is seeking to terminate the program of economic cooperation with Russia that has been approved in 2011, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

KYIV, March 15 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) seeks to organize financing for 10 to 20 bio-energy projects in Ukraine in coming four years, EBRD Associate Director for Energy Efficiency and Climate Change in Ukraine, Poland and Caucasus Sergiy Maslichenko said.

KIEV, March 15 - The Cabinet of Ministers expects to sign by October 1 an agreement on the merger of cross-border gas pipelines (interconnection agreements) with Slovakia, Poland, and Romania.

KIEV, March 15 – Ukraine and Turkey can establish an economic and political strategic partnership, Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Hennadiy Zhizhykov said.

KIEV, March 17 – The international conference to collect funds and send them to the Nuclear Safety Account (NSA) for the completion of the project to build a spent nuclear fuel storage facility two at Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) is to take place in Kiev on April 25 and April 16, the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management reported.

KIEV, March 17 – Bulgaria and Turkey are seeking to start imports of European natural gas via Ukrainian gas pipelines, Ihor Prokopiv, the head of the state-owned UkrTransGaz, said Thursday.

KIEV, March 18 – State-run national nuclear company EnergoAtom and Poland-based Polenergia International have signed a memorandum of understanding in Kiev to implement the Ukraine-European Union Energy Bridge project, the Ukrainian company reported.

KIEV, March 16 – The National Bank of Ukraine has issued a resolution to support liquidity of PrivatBank (Dnipropetrovsk), the largest Ukrainian bank, and to provide a new sum of the stabilization credit of UAH 1.215 billion for two years to ensure the timely fulfillment of the bank's liabilities to depositors-individuals.

KIEV, March 17 - Fitch Ratings announced it has downgraded Ukraine-based DTEK Energy B.V.'s (DTEK) Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) to 'C' from 'CCC.'