KIEV, Dec. 20??“ The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will lend ?25.755 mln to the national energy company UkrEnergo for the construction of a new 330 kV overhead transmission line interconnection between Usatove and Ajalyk substations located in Odessa region.

EBRD President Jean Lemierre on Friday signed a corresponding loan agreement with UkrEnergo Director Volodymyr Luchnykov and a guarantee agreement with Prime-Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov, EBRD's resident office in Kiev told Interfax-Ukraine.