Lukoil stopped the refinery last week following the dispute with UkrTransNafta after the oil shipper had acted on a plan to start massive imports of Caspian Sea crude to one of Lukoil's competitors.

Ukraine will reduce imports of Russian natural gas next year compared with original expectations due to falling demand in the economy, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Thursday. Tymoshenko reacted to comments from Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller that the Russian company

The Ukrainian government is not meeting its commitments to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank and the World Bank on raising loans for Naftogaz Ukrayiny, so the talks on the loans have been frozen, a

Ukraine is interested in securing foreign investment that could be used to fund the extraction of oil and natural gas in the Black Sea, President Viktor Yushchenko said. "It is possible to address the topic of national oil and gas

Ukraine's biggest oil refinery UkrTatNafta on Thursday received the first shipment of Caspian Sea crude - an alternative to Russian oil - ending a two-year boycott from Russian oil companies, an official said. The development is significant as it represents