KIEV, Aug. 6 – The Ukrainian Finance Ministry's statement on the need to restructure a $500 million international bond of the state gas company Naftogaz, which is due to mature in late September, has caused dismay among some investors, the British business newspaper the Financial Times has reported.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday vowed to drastically reshape the monetary and exchange rate policies of the National Bank of Ukraine in the event of her winning the presidency in January 2010.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – State Oschadbank (Savings Bank) paid UAH 13.8 million in relief aid to the residents of the flood-hit regions in Ukraine's west through Aug. 5, the bank said on Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – Ukraine may tap other oil companies to see if they are interested in moving Caspian Sea oil via Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Europe, Energy and Fuel Minister Ivan Prodan said Wednesday.

Prodan, an ally of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, responded to criticism that the government has been recently taking steps to block Caspian oil supplies to Europe.

KIEV, Aug. 3 – Ukraine is interested in close cooperation with Slovakia in issues of energy security, Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said during a telephone conversation with his Slovakian counterpart Robert Fiko, the cabinet reported.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – The inflow of currency to Ukraine and an increase in funds on the government's accounts would not lea to monetary pressure on inflation and the instability of the hryvnia exchange rate, first deputy governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, Anatoliy Shapovalov, said.

KIEV, Aug. 3 ??“ Ukraine has pumped 9.3 billion cubic meters of gas into underground storage facilities, while the volume of active gas amounts to 11 billion cubic meters of gas, Ukraine's Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov said in the parliament on Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 4 ??“ Ukraine??™s consumer prices rose 0.9% on the month in July bringing cumulative inflation to 3.8% in January-July, the State Statistics Committee reported Friday.

KIEV, Aug. 5 ??“ The Regions Party, a moderate pro-Russian group, joined forces with Our Ukraine Friday to approve a resolution allowing foreign troops to enter Ukraine for a NATO-led military training exercise later this year.

KIEV, Aug. 5 ??“ Mykola Azarov, a senior member of the Regions Party, became Ukraine??™s new economic tzar Friday after Parliament had approved him as the first deputy prime minister in charge of finance and economic policy.