KIEV, Sept. 25 - A group of investors holding bonds in Naftogaz will determine their position on the debt restructuring terms proposed by the Ukrainian national oil and gas company by Sept. 30.

The creditors are still studying Naftogaz's proposal and have not determined their position, Carl Philipp R. Thomas, an associate of Luxembourg-based Aequi-Libria consultancy firm and a member of the Naftogaz Bondholder's Action Group, told Interfax.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – The deficit of the current account of Ukraine's balance of payments in August plunged to $44 million, from $348 million in July, and the deficit of the financial account climbed to $2.574 billion, up from $595 million in the previous month, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Ukraine will be able to overcome the financial crisis only by taking more efforts instead of fully relying on the International Monetary Fund’s financial aid, said IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

KIEV, Sept. 26 – Hungary's Ukrenergy Trade ZRt, which is 52% owned by Ukrinterenergo state company, is buying a 50%+1 stake in Poland's Zomar S.A., the president of Switzerland's Korlea Invest Holding AG, Vasyl Bechvarzh, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 26 ??“ The increase of export oil duty by Russia on Oct. 1 to $237.6 per ton will not impact the Ukrainian fuel market, TNK-BP Commerce Ltd. Director General Feliks Luniev believes.

KIEV, Sept. 27 ??“ The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of appeals by AeroSvit Airlines against a March 9 ruling by the Higher Economic Court that determined as illegal agreements on purchasing land plots and property at Boryspil Airport, and sent them for hearings at Kiev Regional Economic Court, AeroSvit told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 27 ??“ Altimo, which manages the telecommunications business of Alfa-Group, is still considering various options for the distribution of assets jointly owned by Altimo and Norway's Telenor, according to Altimo CEO Aleksey Reznikovich.

KIEV, Sept. 28 - Ukraine plans to accumulate up to 3.5 million mt of coal in its stockpile by the end of October, up from about 3.3 million mt that had been accumulated a year ago, the energy and fuel ministry said in a statement Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 28 - SmartGames, a Russian group of companies producing slot machines, has opened a production site in Kiev and started selling medium-price slot machines (priced $4,000-$6,000), SmartGames representative in Ukraine Igor Golovitsin said, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

KHARKIV, Sept. 28 - The German firm Natursafte is going to build a juice factory outside Kharkiv, Yaroslav Yushchenko, the deputy chairman of Kharkiv Regional Administration, who has recently returned from a working visit to Germany, told reporters, Interfax-Ukraine reported.