KIEV, Sept. 29 - Full-scale lending may resume in Ukraine over the next few years, National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva predicts.

"Lending will fully resume only in the next few years. Loans to individuals could be a major driver," she said during the Ukrainian Financial Forum, organized by ICU in Odessa on Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has received all necessary documents from Gazprom and is ready to begin prepayment and pumping Russian gas as soon as the trilateral protocol on Russian gas supplies between Ukraine, Russia and the EU is signed, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said.

KIEV, Sept. 28 - Ukraine intends to sign a tripartite agreement on gas by the end of September, Naftogaz Ukrayiny head Andriy Kobolev said at a press conference in Kiev.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – In the framework of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, President Petro Poroshenko met with Polish President Andrzej Duda to discuss the ongoing situation in Donbas.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in New York to discuss bilateral cooperation and the Donbas situation.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – Ukraine should decide on the fate of waste nuclear fuel moved to Russia by 2018 and a related working group has been created to consider this, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – Odessa Regional State Administration Governor Mikheil Saakashvili has come out against the government again, saying the cabinet resolution which empowers the State Fiscal Service to introduce a single indicative cost of customs service for imports will worsen the situation faced by importers and create preconditions for corruption by officials.

MINSK, Sept. 29 - Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists have agreed to extend a pull-back of weapons in east Ukraine to include tanks and smaller weapons systems, the OSCE's representative at peace talks, Martin Sajdik, said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29 - President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday derided Russia's call for the creation of an international antiterrorism coalition, saying the Russians inspire terrorism on their own doorstep and back bellicose puppet governments, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - Germany is providing the Ukrainian government with EUR 25 million for housing construction for internally displaced persons in Ukraine, the Ukrainian president's office said on Monday, citing a telephone call between President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.