KIEV, Feb. 14 - The managements of Sberbank of Russia in Ukraine and Prominvestbank, which is incorporated in Russia's Vnesheconombank, both located in Kiev, have reaffirmed their lending institutions' intention to continue work in Ukraine's banking sector.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – The state debt management program for 2014 approved by the Ukrainian Finance Ministry on February 14, 2014 foresees foreign borrowing of UAH 52.18 billion, taking into account borrowing for the special fund, while earlier the government had said that it plans to raise $12 billion (UAH 103.6 billion under the current exchange rate) from Russia.

KIEV, Feb. 14 – The National Commission for Energy Regulation has issued a license for electricity production to Frunze Solar LLC (Kharkiv), which operates a photovoltaic plant installed on the roof of one of the buildings of PJSC Frunze Plant.

KIEV, Feb. 14 – New excise stamps with three-level counterfeit-proof protection will be introduced for locally produced and imported alcohol and tobacco in Ukraine starting on April 1.

KIEV, Feb. 14 – EnergoAtom has placed bonds worth UAH 1.7 billion and sent UAH 1.4 billion to the national budget in the form of advance tax payments, First Vice President Oleksandr Shavlakov said in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 15 - Credit Suisse First Boston and Deutsche Bank have withdrawn their demand that Ukrtelecom to pay back early the remaining $222.2 million it owes on a $500 million credit raised in 2005 that they made due to a change in the management of the company, a source in financial circles told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – Westinghouse is to supply a second commercial nuclear fuel consignment to Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant by July, the press service of National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom said.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny handed over 3.471 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas to Swiss-based gas trader RosUkrEnergo in January 2011 in line with a ruling by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, a government source told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – The price of imported natural gas for Ukraine in the second quarter of 2011 will grow by 6.1%, to $280 per thousand cubic meters, according to Yevhen Bakulin, the chairman of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, Feb. 16 - After February 10 Ukraine increased natural gas consumption in conditions of a steep drop in temperatures.

According to the Central Dispatcher Center, daily gas delivers to Ukraine on February 11-14 reached 202 million cubic meters compared to 191 million cubic meters on the average at the beginning of the month (6% up).