KIEV, July 11 ??“ The government will to go ahead with its plan to build a huge new oil refinery in Ukraine that would refine Caspian Sea crude oil, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Monday.

KIEV, July 11 ??“ Ukraine should be able to join the World Trade Organization before the end of the year unless the government makes any bold anti-market measure, Economy Minister Serhiy Teriokhin, the chief WTO negotiator, said.

KIEV, July 11 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, said Monday it had reached preliminary agreements with two privately held gas traders for extra gas imports that would help Ukraine avoid shortages.

KIEV, July 12 ??“ PrivatBank (Dnipropetrovsk) and a foreign company named BigOptima have founded the Ukrainian Bureau of Credit Histories Ltd.

TEHRAN, July 12 ??“ A senior Ukrainian official, on a visit to Tehran, said Tuesday Iran may supply up to a half of Europe??™s growing natural gas needs in the future, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, June 11 – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on European partners to provide Ukraine with equipment from shutdown European power plants and provide direct financial support for the functioning of the Ukrainian energy sector.

BERLIN, June 11 – Ukraine appeals to European partners with a request to maximally facilitate the increase in electricity imports to 2.3 GW from 1.7 GW today, said First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko.

WASHINGTON, June 11 - The United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system, two U.S. officials said Tuesday, answering Kyiv’s desperate calls for more air defenses as it battles an intense Russian assault on the northeastern Kharkiv region.

KYIV, June 12 – Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Roman Mashovets met with a delegation from the United Arab Emirates headed by Minister of Climate Change and Environment of the United Arab Emirates, Head of the Office of International Affairs under the President of the UAE Mariam Almheiri.

KYIV, June 12 – Belgium will provide Ukraine with urgent humanitarian assistance to eliminate the consequences of the explosion of the dam of Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in Kherson region, the website of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on Saturday.