KIEV, July 9 – Ukraine’s consumer inflation will probably hit 19% in 2008, not 15.9% as the government has predicted, Serhiy Teriokhin, a leading economist at Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s group, admitted on Wednesday.

KIEV, July 9 – Ukraine’s national oil and gas company, Naftogaz Ukrayiny, warned Monday that European natural gas supplies may be at risk of disruption if Ukraine tries to remove RosUkrEnergo as its main gas supplier.

KIEV, July 7 - Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrayiny agreed it will be sufficient for Ukraine to store 16 billion cubic meters of gas at underground tanks to get through the winter, Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov said.

MOSCOW, July 7 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Gazprom see no need to revise contracts on the cost of natural gas purchases from Turkmenistan in 2006, Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov said.

KIEV, July 7 ??“ The construction of the Burgas-Alexandropolis oil pipeline through Bulgaria and Greece poses no threat to the operation of the Odessa-Brody pipeline and its extension to Plock, Oleksandr Todyichuk, the CEO UkrTransNafta, said.

KIEV, July 7 ??“ Regions Party leader Viktor Yanukovych, designated as the next prime minister by the pro-Russian coalition, said he plans to resume talks with Turkmenistan over direct supplies of Central Asian natural gas to Ukraine.

KIEV, July 7 - Former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Regions Party, a pro-Russian group, is likely to be nominated as the next prime minister, a senior party member said Friday.

KIEV, July 8 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko on Saturday stepped up pressure on Parliament apparently seeking to prevent creation of a hostile pro-Russian coalition that had been emerging in the legislature.

KYIV, June 8 - The level of water in the Kakhovka Reservoir is 12.5 meters as of the evening of Thursday, which is lower than the so-called "dead" point of 12.7 meters, below which water pumping is impossible. "The water level is already 12.5 meters. This is lower than the 'dead' point of 12.7 meters, below which we cannot pump water for the settlements and the ZNPP," Head of Ukrhydroenergo Ihor Syrota said on the air of the national telethon on Thursday. The drop in water level is likely to stop at approximately 3 meters, he said.

KYIV, June 8 – President of National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom Petro Kotin has said the last of the six power units of the occupied Zaporizhia NPP, which was still in a state of hot shutdown, could be switched to a cold state due to a drop in the water level of the Kakhovka reservoir after the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant (HPP) was blown up by Russian troops.