MOSCOW, April 24 ??“ Ukraine??™s economy is likely to expand 7.2% on the year in 2008 and will have consumer inflation at 6.8%, Stanislav Bukovynsky, the head of the National Bank's council, said Tuesday.

WARSAW, April 24 ??“ PKO Bank Polski SA (Poland) is purchasing a 28% stake in Kredobank from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, this way increasing its stake in the bank to 98%, Bloomberg reported.

KIEV, April 24 - The share of foreign capital in the Ukrainian banks' combined charter capital could grow to 35% by the end of 2007 from 27.6% at the start of the year.

MOSCOW, April 21 - The U.S. Justice Department's organized crime division is investigating RosUkrEnergo AG, a company that supplies Russian and Central Asian natural gas to Ukraine, Reuters reported citing diplomatic and financial sources.

KIEV, April 20 ??“ The Ukrainian government approved a plan for the use of radio frequency bands in the country, Transportation and Communications Minister Viktor Bondar said.

KIEV, April 21 - Ukraine??™s national agency for effective energy usage plans to commission a facility that will produce synthetic gas, or syngas, later this year, a source at the agency said Friday.

KIEV, April 22 ??“ InterRybFlot (Sevastopol), Ukraine's biggest canned fish producer, is planning to strengthen its position on the canned fish market by launching a new trademark called Aquamarine, Ruslan Kotyrlo, the company's marketing director, announced at the presentation of the new trademark in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, April 22 ??“ UkrTatNafta, Ukraine's biggest oil refinery, will stick to the limit wholesale selling prices set by the Economic Ministry for April 15 to May 1, company Chairman Serhiy Hlushko said.

KYIV, March 23 – Deputy Head of the President's Office Ihor Zhovkva noted the need to expand Ukraine's trade opportunities amid coronavirus (COVID-19) by concluding free trade agreements with foreign states and deepening cooperation with international economic organizations and regional associations, the presidential press service said.

KYIV, March 24 – In January and February 2021, Ukrnafta reduced oil and condensate production by 6.4% (16,100 tons), year-over-year, to 236,100 tons, gas by 11.8% (by 23.1 million cubic meters), to 172.6 million cubic meters.