KIEV, Oct. 13 - Ukraine increased natural gas reserves in its underground gas storage facilities by 0.15%, or by about 25.6 million cubic meters, over the past seven days, data released by Gas Storage Europe, a non-profit Brussels-based organization that provides energy statistics to the EU, indicate.

The country accumulated 16.73 billion cu m of natural gas in its storage facilities as of October 11, or about 52.4% of their total capacity, according to the GSE.