KYIV, March 29 – Russia resorted to manipulation by spreading allegations that Ukrainian rocket engines may have been supplied to North Korea, Pivdenmash, the country’s rocket producer, said.

LONDON/KIEV, March 30 – The High Court in London on Wednesday issued a summary judgment in a $3 billion eurobond case brought by Russia against Ukraine, the procedure by which the court may decide a claim without a trial, according to the document read out in open court by the judge, a copy of which has been sent to Interfax-Ukraine.

MOSCOW, March 30 - VTB could suffer an estimated 10-20 billion rubles in losses if the negative scenario regarding its Ukrainian subsidiary materializes, VTB Deputy CEO Yuri Soloviev told journalists. In the positive scenario, the group could make a small profit.

MOSCOW, March 29 - The situation in Ukraine will not significantly affect Russian banks, Sergey Voronenko, the director of the Financial Institutions direction at S&P Global Ratings, said.

MOSCOW, March 29 - The sale of Sberbank's subsidiary in Ukraine may be closed between late April and late May, a source at Sberbank of Russia (MOEX: SBER) told reporters.

KIEV, March 30 – Despite its parent company’s declaring bankruptcy, Westinghouse Electric Sweden, a division of Westinghouse Electric Company (the United States), will produce and supply nuclear fuel to six Ukrainian VVER-1000 reactors under a contract with Energoatom.

KIEV, March 30 – Ukraine and South Korea are working on boosting cooperation in the aerospace sector.

The State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) reported that further development of promising cooperation in the sphere was discussed at the fifth meeting of the Ukrainian-South Korean committee for scientific and technical cooperation of the relevant joint working group.

KIEV, March 29 – National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom has signed a contract with Westinghouse Electric Company on supply of the BEACON software for the active zone monitoring system at reactor five of Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP), the company reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, March 29 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has provided an uncommitted trade facility of up to EUR 10 million to Credit Agricole Bank to boost support of Ukrainian exporters and importers under its Trade Facilitation Program (TFP).

KIEV, March 30 - Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn at the Nuclear Security Summit held in Washington from March 30 to April 2 will sign an agreement between the governments of Ukraine and Australia on cooperation in the field of nuclear energy use for peaceful purposes.