KIEV, Dec. 16 - Ukraine’s national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the main shipper of Russian natural gas to the European Union, said Tuesday it had put in operation a new compressor plant making gas shipments more reliable.

KIEV, Dec. 15 -- Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the long-term foreign and local currency deposit ratings of Privatbank AS, a Riga-based subsidiary of Ukrainian Privatbank, to B2 from B1.

KIEV, Dec. 15 – The supply of office space in business centers in Kiev due to the implementation of anti-crisis measures and the altering of development plans by companies over the past one-and-a-half months grew by 50,000-55,000 square meters in the light of a steep fall in demand.

KIEV, Dec. 16 – Severodonetsk Azot in Luhansk region forecasts that due to the impact of the international financial crisis, the company will see UAH120-150 million in losses in Q4, according to company board member Volodymyr Tverdokhlebov.

MOSCOW, Dec. 13 - Russia's Tatneft has addressed a letter to Rixo International Ltd, requesting that the company suspend deliveries of tanker oil to UkrTatNafta (Kremenchuk Oil Refinery).

KIEV, Dec. 13 - Metinvest Holding, the management firm of the Metinvest steel group, has completed the restructuring of its sales division and rebranding of its sales outlets, sales director Andriy Parkhomchuk said at a presentation.

KIEV, Dec. 13 - The negative impact of the increase in the price of imported gas will not be very significant, according to experts from Kiev-based Raiffeisen Bank Aval.

KIEV, Dec. 14 - Ukraine's farms have sown 7.8 million hectares of winter crops for the 2008 harvest, including 7.7 million hectares of grain crops.

KIEV, Dec. 14 - Ukraine saw real GDP growth of 7.2% in January-November 2007 compared to the same period of 2006, the Ukrainian State Statistics Committee said in a statement on Friday.

KIEV, Dec. 16 ??“ Bogdan Holding, Ukraine??™s second biggest producer of buses, supplied the municipality of Batumi of Georgia last month with 30 small-class Bogdan A-092 buses with Euro-1 engines and ABS break systems, for operation in mountainous regions.