Ukraine warns it cannot cover 2014 debt repayments

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's foreign currency reserves are not enough to cover all debt repayments falling due in 2014, Finance Minister Oleksander Shlapak said on Monday. He told journalists that Ukraine had to repay about $10 billion (6 billion pounds) in state debt by the end of the year. If the debts of state gas company Naftogaz and state highways construction company were added to this, currency reserves would not be able to cover the payments due, he said. (Reporting by Natalia Zinets, Writing by Richard Balmforth, Editing by Timothy Heritage)