Head of state enterprise Energoatom Yuriy Nedashkovsky has asked the Cabinet of Ministers to media reports about alleged abuse during the procurement of products from VostGOK.

"I will return to the Cabinet with a request to check all the facts that were presented in recent publications because, I am not afraid of this word, this is discrediting Ukraine," he said.

He added that the company buys all its uranium oxide concentrate supplied by VostGOK under the contract dated 2008 at the prices approved by the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry.

He stressed that it does not matter for Energoatom whether VostGOK produces uranium oxide concentrate completely independently, or buys intermediate (uranyl nitrate) from someone else and then makes uranium oxide concentrate.

"We do not buy uranyl nitrate, we do not buy ore, we buy uranium oxide concentrate and do this at the price approved by the energy ministry. To build some illiterate speculation on this background, as the Security Service does, is a blatant nonsense. All this does not have any legal course, therefore mass media are involved. If the SBU could prove any real facts, it would have done this long ago," the president of Energoatom said.

Nedashkovsky noted that work with VostGOK allows Ukraine to reduce its nuclear dependence on Russia.