KIEV, March 30 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny has announced a tender for providing informational assistance of its strategic areas of work related to the development of effective relations of the company with the professional community, representatives of the institutions and the US State Department, EU, Energy Community states and international mass media.

KIEV, March 27 - Chinese company CITIC Construction Co., Ltd is ready to invest $15 billion in the Ukrainian construction industry to alleviate the shortage of affordable housing in the country.

KIEV, March 27 - Moody's Investors Service has downgraded to Caa3 from Caa2 the corporate family ratings and to Caa3-PD from Caa2-PD the probability of default ratings of three companies operating in Ukraine (Ferrexpo Plc, Metinvest B.V. and MHP S.A.).

SIMFEROPOL, March 30 - The Crimean authorities do not intend to revisit the results of the privatization of enterprises carried out on the Black Sea peninsula before it became part of Russia, Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov said during a personal reception in the audience hall of the Russian president in Simferopol.

KIEV, March 30 – The State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine (Ukreximbank, Kiev) has commenced a consent solicitation in relation to the outstanding $750 million 8.375% loan participation notes (LPN) due on April 27, 2015.

KIEV, March 30 – Ukrainian banks UAH 66.027 billion in February, 7.8 times more than January's UAH 8.504 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, March 30 – The National Bank of Ukraine has provided a new stabilization credit of UAH 800 million to the largest bank in the country – PrivatBank (Dnipropetrovsk), NBU said on its website.

VIENNA, March 30 - Billionaire financier George Soros is ready to invest $1 billion in Ukraine, if Western countries help private investment there. He also put the odds of Greece leaving the euro at a third, in an interview with Austrian newspaper Der Standard, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, March 30 - Russian gas giant Gazprom on Monday offered to extend a supply deal with Ukraine for another three months ahead of a looming deadline that had raised fears for deliveries to Europe, AFP reported.

LONDON, March 30 - International banks are waiting for the outcome of Ukraine's sovereign debt restructuring before embarking on billions of dollars of corporate financial restructuring in the war-torn region, Reuters reported.