KIEV, Oct. 14 – Kiev, Kharkiv, Lviv and Donetsk – the four Ukrainian cities which will host matches of the Euro 2012 European football championship – will need 800 large, 355 medium and 113 small buses, a representative of the State Road Administration said at a meeting at the Ukrainian Transport and Communications Ministry.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – UDC Holding, part of the Universal Investment Group, is currently in talks with Arab investors on the possible financing - through an issue of bonds worth EUR 500-600 million under the Eurokoliya project - of the construction of a European-standard railway line from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv to the country's border with Poland.

KIEV, Oct. 13 – The measures on stabilization of the banking sector [stipulated by NBU's resolution No. 319 of Oct. 11] will yield a positive effect, according to financiers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 14 – The Ukrainian Association of Ferroalloy Producers (and the Ukrainian Association of Ferrous Metals Producers are warning the government against issuing state subsidies to mining and metals companies of Ukraine, as this may lead to the opening of anti-subsidy investigations by other countries under World Trade Organization rules.

KIEV, Oct. 14 - Ukraine's Industrial Policy Ministry has completed work on a new version of the state program for the development and reform of the mining and metals sector in the period to 2012.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – The shareholders in UkrNafta at an extraordinary general meeting on Dec. 2 plan to consider the distribution of the company's profit, payment of dividends for 2006-2007 and reelection of its leadership.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – The state, via the State Property Fund, should follow the example of developed countries and prevent falls on the stock market through the partial purchase of companies' shares on exchanges, according to the president of investment funds of Kiev-based Amadeus Asset Management Company, Mykhailo Roiko.

KIEV, Oct. 12 – Kyivmetropoliten municipal company plans to buy 625 wagons over the next four years, the company's head Petro Miroshnikov said in an interview with Kreschatyk newspaper.

KIEV, Oct. 12 – The European Bank for the Reconstruction and Development said it could issue another credit worth up to $100 million to Lviv-based Halnaftogaz to develop the OKKO filling station chain.

SIMFEROPOL, Oct. 12 – The Finance & Credit Group owned by Ukrainian businessman Kostiantyn Zhevaho is in talks with Simferopol-based ChornomorNaftoGaz oil and gas company to create a joint venture to develop oil and gas fields in the Black Sea, ChornomorNaftoGaz CEO Anatoliy Prysyazhnyuk said at a news conference in Simferopol.