KIEV, Nov. 1 ??“ UkrTelekom, the national phone company, which the government plans to sell soon, may have been artificially driven by managers into bankruptcy, Valentyna Semeniuk, the head of the State Property Fund, said.

Semeniuk, in a special report submitted to Parliament??™s communications committee, warned that UkrTelekom had been recently spending suspiciously much more money than it had been earning.