KIEV, Sept. 1 – The State Committee for State Material Reserves will toughen its tactics with indebted power generation companies and Naftogaz Ukrayiny, to the point of selling their debts.

"If they don't settle their debts, it would be unlikely [we would] fulfill the program for the formation of reserves this year. Therefore we'll take all the necessary measures, even up to selling these debts," Mykhailo Pozhyvanov, the head of the committee, said in an interview with the Kontrakty weekly published on Sept. 1.