KIEV, Sept. 15 – Dmytro Firtash's Group DF said that serious progress has been made in reaching a compromise with Gaz Ukrainy on launching public joint-stock company Azot (Cherkasy) and public joint-stock company Rivneazot.

"We have the serious progress in reaching a compromise with Gaz Ukrainy to settle this economic dispute. As a part of settling this economic dispute we would have a chance to get access to gas, and in this case we will be able to launch the plants," Group DF Managing Director Borys Krasniansky told Interfax-Ukraine on the sidelines of the 12th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting.