KIEV, April 14 – The National Bank of Ukraine has toughened control over currency transactions of authorized banks under orders of their clients.

NBU issued resolution No. 247 on April 7 and it takes effect from April 15.

KIEV, April 14 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has lowered its long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating on Ukraine to 'CC' from 'CCC-.'

KIEV, April 14 - The Chernobyl nuclear power plant (ChNPP) is completing its shutdown activities and officially proceeding into the decommissioning stage, the ChNPP said in a statement.

KIEV, April 10 – Interpipe Pipe and Wheel Company (Dnipropetrovsk) has faced a shortage of scrap metal for the past four months, and the operation of the company will be under threat and workers could be laid off if ferrous scrap metal is not supplied, the company has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 14 - Glas Trosch Group (Switzerland), one of the largest European float glass producers, still plans to build a float glass plant worth $250 million with a projected capacity of 700 tons a day in Dnipropetrovsk region.

KIEV, April 14 – Standard & Poor's Ratings Services forecasts that the gross domestic product of Ukraine in 2015 will fall 7.5% compared to a 6.8% fall in 2014, but will grow 2% in 2016, 3.5% in 2017 and 4% in 2018.

MOSCOW/KIEV, April 11 - Railway traffic between Ukraine and Crimea might soon be suspended, Russian Railways (RZD) president Vladimir Yakunin believes.

KIEV, April 14 – The Ukroboronprom State Concern has temporarily suspended military and technical cooperation with Russia, and claims that cooperation continues are not true, Ukroboronprom chief Yuriy Tereschenko said.

KIEV, April 14 - Ukraine’s natural gas transportation company UkrTransGaz and Polish gas shipper Gaz-System SA signed an agreement that makes its easier for the country to import gas from Europe, Naftogaz Ukrayiny reported Monday.

KIEV, April 14 - Ukraine’s biggest privately-held power and coal mining company DTEK enhanced security at its facilities on Monday amid escalating crisis in the region as pro-Russian separatist groups have seized local government buildings.