KIEV, June 19 – Revenues to the Ukrainian budget from the sale of state stakes in four electricity-generating companies that exploits heat power plants--Dniproenergo, Donbasenergo, Zakhidenergo and Tsentrenergo--$1-1.5 billion, according to Volodymyr Zinevych, president of the National Energy Company of Ukraine.

"It's very difficult to say, but the state won't receive much from the sale of these assets – that's for sure… I think that $1-1.5 billion for all four companies," he said in an interview with Delo newspaper.