KIEV, Feb. 12 – The Defense Ministry and METRO Cash & Carry LLC have signed a contract to supply food to military servicemen of the western naval base of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Odessa.

MOSCOW, Feb. 12 - Sberbank has closed a deal on the conversion of the debt of Ukravtodor and Pivdenne Design Bureau for a sum of $367.4 million in eurobonds and Ukrainian notes for $376 million, the bank said in a press release.

BAKU/KIEV, Feb. 15 – The Viking container train arrived at the Baku international maritime merchandise port from Ukraine, the Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company reported.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – The ProZorro public procurement system, which started operating on February 12, 2015, has allowed the saving of around UAH 600 million of budget funds in the year of its operation, Mykola Zhandorov, head of Zakupki.prom.ua trading site, a participant of the ProZorro system, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 15 - The Antimonopoly Committee has received a repeated appeal from Swiss Glusco Energy S.A. on the purchase of the Rosneft network of fuel filling stations in Ukraine, committee head Yuriy Terentyev hsaid in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – Revenue of Kiev's city budget from the fee for the use of land parcels in 2015 grew by 36.8% year-over-year, reaching UAH 2.6 billion.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – The supervisory board of Vnesheconombank (VEB, Russia) soon will conform the decision of the shareholders in the subsidiary bank in Ukraine – Prominvestbank (PIB, Kiev) made at a general meeting regarding the additional capitalization of the bank by UAH 20 billion via an additional issue of shares.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – Accusations brought by Russia's Gazprom claiming that Naftogaz Ukraine has allegedly siphoned Russian gas while it is being pumped via Ukraine are groundless, Naftogaz Director for Business Development Yuriy Vitrenko said.

KIEV, Feb. 13 – Ukraine's Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food intends to present investment projects in the agricultural sector worth $10 billion at the donor conference scheduled for April.

KIEV, Feb. 13 – PJSC Ukrtransgaz, the operator of Ukraine's gas transport system, has granted European Commission monitors access to the facilities of the Ukrainian gas transport system, including gas metering stations, NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy said.