KIEV, Aug. 14 ??“ Major oil companies on Monday agreed to restrict Ukraine??™s retail gasoline prices after the government had threatened to use regulations that could hurt them, Energy and Fuel Minister Yuriy Boyko said.

The oil companies apparently agreed to keep the price of 95-octane gasoline, the most popular gas, at 4.7 hryvnias per one liter, while diesel fuel price would be set at 4.1 hryvnias per liter, Boyko said.