PRAGUE, Feb. 24 - Energy holding New World Resources (NWR), Central Europe's sole listed coal miner, sees the proposed acquisition of a 24.99% stake in Ukrainian iron ore and pellet producer Ferrexpo as key to its regional growth strategy, CFO Marek Jelinek said in an interview Tuesday, adding the economic crisis could present further attractive opportunities in that emerging market.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – Ukraine's national nuclear power generating company EnergoAtom will act as an ordering customer for the construction of power units 3 and 4 at the Khmelnytsky Nuclear Power Plant.

KIEV, Feb. 26 – Ukraine should not raise its spending on education and healthcare, but use the existing funds more efficiently, the World Bank recommended in a new economic report on Ukraine's public finances.

KIEV, Feb. 25 – UkrNafta, Ukraine's largest oil producer, on Feb. 25, 2008 suspended the sale of light fuel through its own filling station chain, which unites 563 stations, due to the absence of fuel resources, the company reported on Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 26 – Waste nuclear fuel storage facility two at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant could be launched in 2010, according to Emergencies Minister Volodymyr Shandra.

KIEV, Feb. 26 – A transfer to inflation targeting would allow the National Bank of Ukraine to efficiently fight inflation and provide better conditions to support macro-economic stability, Balazs Horvath, resident representative of the International Monetary Fund in Ukraine, said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhdnia weekly newspaper published last week.

KIEV, Feb. 23 ??“ Ukraine's economy will expand 6% on the year to about $110.2 billion in 2007, while inflation will be 10.5%, according to a report by Moody's Investors Service.

KIEV, Feb. 26 ??“ Interpipe, Ukraine??™s largest producer of steel pipes and train wheels, will build a $610 million steelmaker within the next 26 months to reduce costs, a company announced Monday.

WARSAW, Feb. 23 - Polish online communicator Gadu-Gadu will launch the Ukrainian version of its communicator at the turn of the first and second quarters before it enters the Russian market possibly in 2007, the company's executive board member Piotr Pokrzywa told reporters.

KIEV, Feb. 26 ??“ Russia's Mirax Group, the construction holding, plans from March 1 to start selling commercial premises in the highest multi-functional building under construction in Kiev, at Hlybochynska Street in Podil District.