KIEV, May 19 – Ukraine and Poland intend to hold a joint business forum on fuel and energy issues, said Jacek Piechota, the co-chair of the advisory committee of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce.

KIEV, May 19 - Ukrainian businesses are looking forward to new opportunities for development due to the thawing of relations between Russia and Ukraine, however they will pragmatically assess all cooperation projects, according to MP and SCM owner Rinat Akhmetov.

KIEV, May 19 – The National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission is to study Ukrainian mobile operators' roaming rates and the principles of their formation.

KIEV, May 19 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has charged the relevant ministries and departments with checking the quality of sources of drinking water in Ukraine within two months so as to ensure the residents of the capital have a good quality water supply.

KIEV, May 20 - The Yuzhnoye Design Bureau and the Yuzhmash Machine-Building Plant of Ukraine have built the first cruise engine for the fourth stage of the new European Vega rocket for the Italian company Avio SpA.

"The engine was built for the Italian Avio SpA in April, and it will be delivered in May," Yuzhnoye Chief Designer Volodymyr Shniakin told Interfax.

KIEV, May 20 – Ukraine could enter the foreign loan market in the coming weeks, according to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

"We see confidence in us – we held a tender on attraction of foreign loans and all large banks, large investors came to use with proposals.

KIEV, May 19 – Kiev is not planning to make any concessions in the issue of the maritime border between Ukraine and Russia, but is ready to reach a compromise on economic issues, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Voloshyn.

KIEV, May 20 – RosUkrEnergo, a Swiss-based gas trader co-owned by Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash, will seek to win $5.4 billion in compensation from Naftogaz Ukrayiny for “illegal” confiscation of its gas in 2009.

KIEV, May 20 – The situation in the real economic sector of Ukraine, which produces around 64% of GDP, was worse in April than in March, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, May 18 – The signing of a memorandum between Russia's Gazprom and Italy's Eni about the increase in capacity of the South Stream pipeline from 31 to 63 billion cubic meters a year is a political and not an economic decision, Ukrainian presidential envoy for energy security Bohdan Sokolovsky said.