KYIV, Dec 19 - ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih is experiencing significant difficulties in transporting 5 million tons of steel products from the enterprise to the Black Sea ports and delivering 2.5-3 million tons of iron ore concentrate to consumers in Eastern Europe, company CEO Paramjit Kahlon has stated.

KYIV, Dec 18 - Farmers may hold a rally in Kyiv on Thursday demanding the return of VAT refunds for exports of oilseeds and leaving the state support system in the form of VAT quasi-accumulation.

KIEV, Dec. 19 – Ukraine intends to make good the shortage of capital of the largest bank in the country – PrivatBank (Dnipro) – for the amount from UAH 116.8 billion to UAH 148 billion, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

KIEV, Dec. 19 – Bohdan Danylyshyn, head of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine, defended the government's decision to nationalize PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest private lender, and moved to reassure clients of the failed financial institution.

KIEV, Dec. 19 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national energy company, said Gazprom may be preparing for an escalation of tensions and perhaps disruption in gas supplies to Europe during the winter.

KIEV, Dec. 16 – The Finance Ministry and State Treasury Service have lost 3 terabytes of information to a hacker's attack in December, said First Deputy Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies Oleksandr Vlasiuk.

KIEV, Dec. 19 – European Bank for Reconstruction and Development President Suma Chakrabarti said that his organization is strongly supportive of the decision of the Ukrainian government to nationalize PrivatBank and to protect the bank’s depositors, both individuals and businesses.

KIEV, Dec 19 – President Petro Poroshenko said that the situation with PrivatBank (Dnipro) was a threat to Ukraine's entire banking system.

"A threat to the bank and the whole Ukrainian banking system has appeared. It is obvious for us. Our key financial partners – IMF [International Monetary Fund], World Bank, EBRD [European Bank for Reconstruction and Development] and others – have expressed their serious alarm with this situation in the past six months," the president said in his address to Ukrainians.

KIEV, Dec. 19 – The Cabinet of Ministers has prolonged a memorandum of understanding with metallurgical plants signed on February 5, 2013 on beneficial purchases of electricity by electrometallurgical plants for 2014 and expanded the list of companies to Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant and Pobuzhsky Iron Nickel Plant, the Industrial Policy Ministry has reported.

ODESSA, Dec. 17 – Odessa City Council at a session on December 21 will consider a program entitled "Energy Efficiency of Odessa for 2013-2015," the realization of which will allow the energy consumption of the city to be cut by 40%.