KIEV, Feb. 22 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny by the end of this week will receive its first four letters of credit as part of a $500 million loan, Ukrainian Citibank Chairman Steven Fisher.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has instructed the Finance Ministry to buy indexed government domestic loan bonds worth UAH 9.8 billion, or US$363 million, to complete additional capitalization of Dnipro-based PrivatBank, which was nationalized late in 2016, the government announced on its website.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – One of the top vehicles of the state-run enterprise Spetstechnoexport (part of the state-run Ukroboronprom concern) is the Phantom unmanned tactical multipurpose vehicle. Phantom was among the top five inventions at IDEX 2017 – the International Defence Exhibition in the United Arab Emirates and its success shows the high level of interest in Ukrainian military equipment, according to President Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - The continued lack of confidence in the political regime in Ukraine could trigger a new wave of capital outflow from the country and the weakening of the national currency exchange rate by the middle of this year, to UAH 30/$1, analysts of Goldman Sachs investment bank consider.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - The Ukrainian state energy company EnergoAtom has completed a first delivery of nuclear fuel made at the Westinghouse facilities in Sweden to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP).

KIEV, Feb. 22 – The value of orders placed by Pivdenne Design Bureau in 2015 at Pivdenmash (both based in Dnipropetrovsk) is estimated at over UAH 430 million, managers of the bureau have told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – State Enterprise Antonov and Saudi Arabia's Taqnia have signed an agreement of cooperation in organization of production of new An-32 multipurpose aircraft with a carrying capacity of 9.2 tons in Saudi Arabia, Antonov reported on Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – The cost of a project to construct synthesis gas facilities and to switch public joint-stock company Odessa Port-Side Plant to consuming this gas has been assessed at $1.5 billion, acting Director General of subsidiary of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny - Vuhlesyntezgaz Ukrayiny - Andriy Suprun has said.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Ukraine is holding talks on using credit funds from the China Development Bank to finance the construction of interconnection gas pipelines with Poland, said Serniy Alekseyenko, chief adviser to Board Chairman of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – The state could sign a mutually beneficial deal with the Privat group on the creation of a large vertically integrated oil complex on the basis of the largest oil extracting company Ukrnafta and oil refining company Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk Oil Refinery), Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said.