KIEV, March 17 – The European Investment Bank on March 10 approved the financing of a production line for processing tomatoes in Ukraine.

The bank said on its website that the proposed investment underpins the promoter's strategy to increase the competitiveness of its business through expansion of capacity and resource efficiency.

KIEV, March 20 – National joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny on March 17 announced the third round of prequalifications for companies to participate in natural gas procurement procedures to be held in the period from May 15, 2017 through January 20, 2018 using the proceeds of trade finance loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

KIEV, March 20 – Ukroboronprom State Concern said it welcomes the ratification of the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Ukraine by Ukrainian parliament and expects that the implementation of the agreement would bring cooperation between the two countries to the new level.

KIEV, March 20 - PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), an international audit company, will act as a partner of the Ukrainian government's secretariat reform, Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Oleksandr Sayenko said.

KIEV, March 20 – DTEK has reported a crime to the National Police involving its loss of control over mining enterprises located in areas temporarily not controlled by Ukrainian government forces in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

KIEV, March 18 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk and Manoj Kumar Bharti, India's Ambassador to Ukraine, have discussed the possibility of holding a Ukraine-India investment forum in the near future.

KIEV, March 17 - Ukrnafta Chairman Mark Rollins will ask the supervisory council of the company to start pre-trial reorganization for debt repayment.

"I feel strongly in the interest of the government and the people of Ukraine to keep Ukrnafta operating in a profitable way. Hence, I am recommending this course of action.

KIEV, March 18 – The National Bank of Ukraine has placed bank Petrocommerce-Ukraine on its list of insolvent banks.

The decision is outlined in NBU resolution No. 169 of March 17.

The bank earlier was put to the list of troubled banks due to having the non-transparent ownership structure. In March 2015, a shareholder in the bank – Russia's Petrocommerce – sold the Ukrainian bank's shares to 11 individuals.

DUSHANBE, March 18 - The Agency for State Financial Control and Fight against Corruption under the president of Tajikistan has appealed to the economic court of the country with a lawsuit to invalidate the deal on the purchase by the company belonging to Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash of a 75% stake is CJSC Tajikazot.

KIEV, March 19 – The government has drawn up amendments to Ukrainian laws foreseeing a reduction in the subsidizing of solar energy, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said in an interview with Publichnye Liudi magazine.