KYIV, March 15 – The state-owned company Artem, which is incorporated in the Ukroboronprom State Concern, has successfully tested 152 mm artillery ammunition of own production, Ukroboronprom Director General Pavlo Bukin said.

KYIV, March 14 – Ukraine’s biggest poultry maker Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) is holding talks over acquiring the loss-making French poultry producer Doux Group, MHP told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, March 14 - China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd. won an auction to carry out dredging at the Chornomorsk seaport (Odesa region) held on March 14 in the ProZorro e-procurement system. The company won two lots.

KYIV, March 14 - The Ukrainian government ordered to place imports of Russian mineral fertilizers under temporary ban, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said Wednesday.

KYIV, March 14 – Ukraine plans to raise a EUR 150 million loan from Germany's KfW. The funds will be sent to infrastructure projects, the Infrastructure Ministry reported.

KYIV, March 15 – The introduction of auctions for quotas to sell "green" power is appropriate after the share of renewable energy in Ukraine rises to 11% from current 1.5%, Head of the State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving Serhiy Savchuk said.

KIEV, March 15 – The deal to sell Crimean assets of Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) agricultural holding cost $77.5 million, the company said in a report on the website of the London Stock Exchange.

KIEV, March 15 – The Individuals Deposit Guarantee Fund jointly with the National Bank of Ukraine is starting a pilot project on selling large pools of assets of insolvent banks used as collateral for the loans issued by the NBU with the attraction of international advisers – U.S. companies selling troubled assets: DebtX Ukraine LLC (the subsidiary of DebtX) and First Financial Network Ukraine LLC (the subsidiary of FFN).

KIEV, March 15 - The Ukrainian subsidiary of leading Russian lender Sberbank lowered limits on cash withdrawals at the bank and its ATMs and imposed a 5% commission on money transfers in foreign currency as of March 15, saying this was a forced measure due to pressure put on the bank.

KIEV, March 11 – Agrarian Fund public specialized budget-funded company puts the sugar beet sowing campaign under a threat and destroys sugar production in Ukraine, the Ukrtsukor national association of sugar producers of Ukraine has said in its address to the Ukrainian president, prime minister and agricultural policy and food minister.