KIEV, Feb. 2 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has sent a letter calling for additional study of the expediency of construction of reactors of Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant with existing structures to National Nuclear Energy Company EnergoAtom and national energy company Ukrenergo.

KIEV, Feb. 2 – Gazprom must submit a response by October 9 to the claim initiated earlier by Ukraine's Naftogaz Ukrainy in the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) in a dispute arising from the contracts on natural gas shipments and transit dated back to 2009, the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers said.

KIEV, Feb. 2 – The State Property Fund has proposed that state-owned shares in Turboatom (Kharkiv, 75%), Zaporizhia Titanium and Magnesium Combine LLC (51%), the Joint Ukrainian-Kazakh-Russian Enterprise for Nuclear Fuel Production (Kiev) and 17 more companies managed by the fund be put up for the privatization in 2016.

KIEV, Feb. 3 - The International Committee of the Red Cross will raise over $64 million in 2016 for humanitarian aid to internally displaced persons and people who stay in the “anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone,“ said Hennadiy Zubko, Ukrainian Regional Development, Construction, Housing, and Utilities Economy Minister.

KIEV, Feb. 3 - Ukraine's economy minister abruptly tendered his resignation Wednesday, saying overwhelming corruption had stifled his efforts to enact measures essential to returning growth to the cash-strapped state, AFP reported.

KIEV, Feb. 2 – Investigators from the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office have questioned businessman Rinat Akhmetov about issues relating to the events that took place in Kiev's Maidan last winter and his possible involvement in the financing of terrorism, Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema said.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has signed a Cabinet of Ministers decree establishing additional payouts to servicemen for accomplishing missions in battle and destroying the enemy's military equipment.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 3 – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during the upcoming Munich Security Conference, NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu told journalists on Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – The deficit of Ukraine's national budget grew by 20.7% in 2014, to UAH 78.07 billion, the Finance Ministry reported.

"The actual budget deficit in January-December 2014 amounted to UAH 78.07 billion. The actual deficit was 88.1% of the planned annual figure with changes," reads the report.

DONETSK, Feb. 3 - The leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said wage and pension payment delays could arise in 2015, given the economic siege imposed on the republic by Ukrainian authorities.