KIEV, Oct. 30 - Ukraine is not going to recall its lawsuit from an arbitration court in Stockholm, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

"A final decision concerning the fate of the gas contract will be adopted by the Stockholm arbitration court. That is why the agreement and the protocol that will be signed are provisional.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 30 - The European Commission's financial guarantees concerning Ukraine's payments for Russian natural gas will be included in a bilateral protocol, Russian gas giant Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 30 - Ukraine, Russia and the European Union signed a deal on Thursday that will see Moscow resume vital supplies of gas to its ex-Soviet neighbor over the winter in return for payments funded in part by Kiev's Western creditors, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - The Petro Poroshenko Bloc has proposed that a coalition agreement should envision the reform of the energy sector in Ukraine.

"We will ensure the drawing of large-scale private investments in the energy sector. To increase our own production of gas, oil, and coal, we will diversify the sources of supplies of gas (not more than 30% of consumption per one supplier) and fuel for nuclear power plants in order to increase competition among suppliers and lower the level of monopolization and isolation of the Ukrainian energy market," a draft coalition agreement published on Tuesday says.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - European Parliament President Martin Schulz and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called the elections the pro-Russian separatists are planning to hold in separate districts in Donetsk and Luhanks regions on November 2 unacceptable and in contravention of Ukrainian laws and the Minsk agreements, the Ukrainian presidential press service said.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - Petro Poroshenko Bloc has won the most support among Ukrainians in the latest elections and will form the largest faction in the new Verkhovna Rada, said Volodymyr Hroisman, one of the party leaders and Deputy Prime Minister.

KIEV, Oct. 30 – The suspension of the transfer of seaports to the long-term concession and their privatization after stabilizing the situation in the eastern part of Ukraine is foreseen in a draft coalition agreement of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc posted on its Web site early Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - Tokmak Solar Energy LLC launched the first phase of a solar power plant in Tokmak district of Zaporizhia region with a capacity of 1.5 MW, the press service of Zaporizhia Regional Administration has reported.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - Ukraine began the 2012/2013 heating season with natural gas reserves in underground gas storage facilities of about 21 billion cubic meters (bcm), Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Boyko said.

KIEV, Oct. 29 – Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov said Ukraine's joining the European Energy Community is an obstacle to the creation of an international gas consortium for the management of Ukraine's gas transport system with involvement of Gazprom.