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Thursday, August 29

Despite full storage capacity, Europe is at risk of a gas crisis this winter. European gas storage facilities are full, and regional demand is falling to levels not seen since the early 1980s. However, prices remain elevated, having recently hit an eight-month high. The current...

Thursday, June 8

Brussels calls on European banks to provide insurance guarantees for gas storage in Ukraine. According to Naftogaz, the company can offer EU companies the capacity to place up to 10 billion cubic meters of gas, with the possibility of increasing it to 15 billion cubic meters if Ukraine reclai...

Wednesday, April 26

Ukraine has joined the new gas purchase platform launched by the EU. The EU has launched a first-of-its-kind process for European companies to register their gas purchase needs via the AggregateEU mechanism to prepare for the joint purchase of gas through a coordinated...

Monday, June 20

Ukraine has already accumulated half of the gas needed for the upcoming heating season. More than 10 billion cubic meters of gas have already been collected in Ukraine’s underground gas storage facilities (GHGs), and this volume is constantly growing, announced the Prime Minister ...

Wednesday, June 8

Ukraine has started accumulating gas and coal for the coming heating season. By the beginning of the heating season, Ukraine needs at least 19 billion cubic meters stocked in gas storage facilities and 2 million tons of coal in warehouses, said Prime Minister Denis Shmygal. T...

Wednesday, May 18

Ukraine can replace some of the Russian gas exports to the EU. The Ukraine Ministry of Energy estimates that the export of electricity from Ukraine can replace 17% of Russian gas supplies to the European Union, said Deputy Minister Mykola Kolisnyk. It is noted th...

Monday, February 7

Ukrtransgas invests UAH 144M in the reconstruction of equipment at Uhersk UGS. Naftogaz subsidiary Ukrtransgas has begun reconstruction of the gas dehydration installation at the Uhersk underground gas storage facility (UGS), in which it will invest UAH 144M ($5.15M), reported ...

Monday, January 31

Ukrainian storage facilities can become a “gas safe” for Europe. The Prime Minister of Ukraine, Denis Shmyhal, said that Ukraine could contribute to a more stable gas situation for Europe by providing part of Ukraine’s underground storage facilities as a gas...

Tuesday, April 27

“Ukrainian gas storage injections hinge on price, not geopolitical risk – traders,” wrote the ICIS energy news site on the impact of the Russian military threat to eastern Ukraine. “European gas companies will consider storing gas in Ukraine depending on summer-winter spreads irrespe...

Foreign companies own almost one third of the 15.4 billion cubic meters stored in Ukraine – up from zero two years ago, reported Sergii Pereloma, the Head of the UGS storage unit of Ukrtransgaz. The number of foreign customers has doubled and now includes companies based in UAE, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Key attractions for int...

Thursday, October 29

UIA is closing its offices in Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland to save money UIA is closing its offices in Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland to save money. Last month, the airline, based in Boryspil, closed its offices in Belarus, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Pavel Ryabkin, general director Boryspil Airport, is to become Ukraine’s third Customs Service director in a year, Pavel Ryabkin, general director Boryspil Airport, is to become Ukraine’s third Customs Service director in a year, according to reports from yesterday’s Cabinet of Ministers meeting. Later Finance Min...

Anatoly Fedorchuk, mayor of Boryspil, the Kyiv Region city that is home to Boryspil International Airport, died from Covid-19 on Wednesday Anatoly Fedorchuk, mayor of Boryspil, the Kyiv Region city that is home to Boryspil International Airport, died from Covid-19 on Wednesday three days after winning re-election. A new election will hav...

After almost 7,500 new cases were announced Wednesday morning, the Cabinet of Ministers decided to extend until Dec. 31 the emergency regime adopted last March After almost 7,500 new cases were announced Wednesday morning, the Cabinet of Ministers decided to extend until Dec. 31 the emergency regime adopted last March to fight Covid. Prime Minister Shmyhal a...

French Treasury financing may push Alstom over the top in the race to provide Ukrzaliznytsia with 205 electric locomotives for the 2020s, French Treasury financing may push Alstom over the top in the race to provide Ukrzaliznytsia with 205 electric locomotives for the 2020s, according to reports from a meeting Tuesday in Kyiv between Uk...

4G mobile service now covers 98% of Kyiv’s metro 4G mobile service now covers 98% of Kyiv’s metro, according to a press release by the three participating cellphone companies – Kyivstar, Vodaphone Ukraine and lifecell. Yesterday, the fast service wa...

Both sides are to meet again next month to discuss what could be a €1 billion contract Both sides are to meet again next month to discuss what could be a €1 billion contract. President Zelenskiy stressed to the visiting Alstom executives the need to localize in Ukraine some of the locom...

Ukraine starts the winter heating season this week with natural gas reserves at a record 28.4 billion cubic meters Ukraine starts the winter heating season this week with natural gas reserves at a record 28.4 billion cubic meters. And today’s level is 30% above the level of this time last year, also a record, repo...

Europe’s gas glut this summer benefitted Ukraine as 79 EU traders used Ukraine’s new duty free warehouse regime to store gas in 12 underground reservoirs. Europe’s gas glut this summer benefitted Ukraine as 79 EU traders used Ukraine’s new duty free warehouse regime to store gas in 12 underground reservoirs. This fall, gas stored in this customs regime ...

Prime Minister Denis Shmygal met yesterday in Kyiv with Alfred Kammer, the IMF’s new European Director. Prime Minister Denis Shmygal met yesterday in Kyiv with Alfred Kammer, the IMF’s new European Director. “We are rapidly converging positions with the IMF,” Shmygal wrote on his Telegram channel. “We j...

In one concession to the IMF, the Cabinet of Ministers yesterday removed restrictions on salaries to government officials and members of supervisory boards. In one concession to the IMF, the Cabinet of Ministers yesterday removed restrictions on salaries to government officials and members of supervisory boards. Last April, the government placed a $1,700 ...

The online registry of officials’ asset declarations was closed yesterday, The online registry of officials’ asset declarations was closed yesterday, due to a Constitutional Court ruling, said the National Agency for Preventing Corruption, the agency that maintained the regi...

In protest, Oleksandr Novikov, head of the anti-corruption agency, In protest, Oleksandr Novikov, head of the anti-corruption agency, told reporters yesterday: “The Constitutional Court returns Ukraine not even to 2013, but to 1991, when there was no anti-corruption ...

In response, President Zelenskiy’s office said: In response, President Zelenskiy’s office said: “There are still corrupt politicians who cannot tolerate the fact that their lifestyle, property and income can be under control.” The president assured...

The EU delegation to Ukraine The EU delegation to Ukraine reminded UNIAN news agency of the “huge EU assistance, including financial, in various fields, respectively is directly related to anti-corruption bodies, which work indep...

The Rada’s Freedom of Speech Committee was forced yesterday to restore the accreditation of reporters who work with The Rada’s Freedom of Speech Committee was forced yesterday to restore the accreditation of reporters who work with Slidstvo.info, Anna Babinets, editor-in-chief of the investigative project, wr...

Two new checkpoints between the Russia-controlled and Ukraine-controlled portions of Luhansk Region will open Nov. 10, Two new checkpoints between the Russia-controlled and Ukraine-controlled portions of Luhansk Region will open Nov. 10, according to a decision of the Trilateral Contact Group — Ukraine, Russsia ...