KHARKIV, Sept. 20 – Kharkiv District Administrative Court has rejected a claim of a lawmaker of Kharkiv Regional Council, Ivan Varchenko (the Batkivschyna faction), who demands that the council's approval of a draft production sharing agreement between Ukraine and Shell, Nadra Yuzivska on the Yuzivska shale gas field be ruled null and void.

"Judge Svitlana Chudnykh read only the resolution: not to satisfy the claim of Varchenko. I cannot say by what she was guided by in making the decision – I will know this when I receive it," Varchenko told Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.

The lawmaker said that he plans to receive the ruling in next several days and submit a counterclaim.