KIEV, July 14 – Ukrainian bank revenues in H1 amounted to UAH 72 billion (in June they totaled UAH 11 billion), while their expenditures ran to UAH 82.2 billion (UAH 14.1 billion), the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reported on its official Web site, with reference to tentative data.

KIEV, July 15 – The value of the contracts signed since early 2009 for the supply of goods and services in Ukraine's military-industrial sector is estimated at around $750 million, a well-informed source in the sector told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

KIEV, July 15 – EastOne international investment and consulting group is interested in the development of media assets and considering the acquisition of new ones, EastOne President Hennadiy Hazyn, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 15 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny should increase the gas transit rate through Ukraine to a European level if the price of imported natural gas rises to $400 per thousand cubic meters, according to Volodymyr Omelchenko, a leading expert for energy programs on oil and gas at the Ukrainian Razumkov Center.

KIEV, July 15 – The Ukrainian aviation industry is in serious crisis, and in the near future the only way to prolong its existence would be integrate with Russian producers, Valentyn Badrak, director of the Ukrainian Center for Army Conversion and Disarmament Studies, said in an article published in Dzerkalo Tyzhdnia weekly newspaper.

KIEV, July 15 – The continued use of worn and obsolete gas turbines could lead to a collapse of the Ukrainian gas transportation system, National Academy of Science of Ukraine fellows Borys Paton and Artem Khalatov said in an article in the Dzerkalo Tyzhdnia weekly newspaper.

KIEV, July 12 - Rinat Akhmetov's System Capital Management (SCM), Ukraine's biggest holding, with assets in the metals, machine building, power, coal, telecommunications, banking, insurance, media and other sectors, plans to invest more than $6.2 billion in its businesses in the next five years, Roman Vodolazsky, the company's CFO, told the Ukrainian Dilo newspaper.

KIEV, July 12 - Fitch Ratings has today upgraded Ukraine-based TAS-Kommerzbank's ratings to Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default ('IDR') 'BB-' (BB minus) from 'B-' (B minus), National Long-term 'AAA(ukr)' from 'BBB-(minus)(ukr)' and Support '3' from '5', the agency reported in a press release, posted on the official Web site.

KIEV, July 12 - Ukraine's State Road Service, Ukravtodor, plans to start talks on attracting EUR200 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to repair the Kiev-Chop highway, Ukravtodor head Volodymyr Demishkan told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 13 - The cost of borrowing in Ukraine in the second half of 2007 will be stable - if there are no extraordinary events in the country, according to Kiev-based Ukrsotsbank First Deputy Chairman Valentyna Zhukovska.