LONDON, April 23 – Ukraine will use various forms of privatization with state coalmines and coal-mining companies, State Property Fund Chairman Oleksandr Riabchenko said at the Ukrainian Investment Summit in London on April 18-20.

KIEV, April 23 – Ukraine is to switch from one-year to three-year defense orders for the more effective implementation of the program of rearmament of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Kliuyev said.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, April 23 - Russian oil major Lukoil plans to put upwards of $70 million into the implementation of investment projects at the petrochemicals enterprise Karpatnaftokhim (Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region) this year, Lukoil's vice president for oil-refining, petrochemicals, and gas-refining, Oleg Durov said in Ivano-Frankivsk on Monday.

KIEV, April 24 – Chornomornaftogaz (Simferopol, Crimea) has attracted an interest-free loan of UAH 2.396 billion from Naftogaz Ukrayiny, and not UAH 3.396 billion as was stipulated in a company report published on April 23, 2012.

MOSCOW, April 23 - The Russian consumer protection watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has officially sanctioned imports of cheese from three Ukrainian factories inspected by Russian experts.

KIEV, April 24 – The removal by Russia of restrictions on its imports of Ukrainian cheese will not cause a rise in the price of cheese and an increase in purchasing prices for milk in Ukraine, according to market experts.

KIEV, April 24 – Interpipe Nyzhniodniprovsky Pipe Plant (NTRP) has gained certification to supply finished machined railway wheels to the national railway operators of the Czech Republic and Hungary, according to a company press release issued on Wednesday.

KIEV, April 23 – Ukraine's state road service, known as Ukravtodor, is currently in talks with the World Bank on raising a EUR 400 million loan for the renovation of a stretch of the Kiev-Kharkiv highway.

KIEV, April 24 – SCM, the holding company of Donetsk-based System Capital Management Financial and Industrial Group, plans to invest around $80 million in the television business and around $40 million in the publishing business, holding's director general, Oleh Popov, said in an interview with the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper.

KIEV, April 22 – The increase in the NBU discount rate reflects growing instability in the country's financial sector, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.