KIEV, March 13 – Russia must bear responsibility for protecting Ukrainian investors in Crimea after its annexation under the Russian-Ukrainian bilateral investment treaty.

KIEV, March 13 – The export-credit agency at the first phase of its launch will handle only insurance of exporters: insurer and reinsure their risks, Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Natalia Mykolska said.

KIEV, March 13 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has narrowed a list of dual-use goods for imports for which the customs agencies had earlier demanded additional permits.

The government passed the resolution at a meeting on Friday, March 10.

KIEV, March 13 – Ukrainian banks with foreign capital have said that they strictly observe the ban imposed by the National Bank of Ukraine on servicing of persons with IDs issued in occupied areas in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.

KIEV, March 13 - UkrTatNafta, Ukraine’s largest oil refinery, will increase by 50% on year oil refining to 3.3 million metric tons in 2017, a senior company official said.

KIEV, March 13 - The Kiev headquarters of Russia's state-owned Sberbank has suspended operations in the midst of protests by anti-Kremlin demonstrators who blocked the entrance and windows of the building with concrete blocks on March 13, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.

KIEV, March 13 – Ukraine and Iran have approved a memorandum of understanding for cooperation between ports to be signed by port authorities of Ukraine and Iran in the near future.

KIEV, March 13 – The founder and head of Tesla, billionaire Elon Musk, is ready to build electricity storage systems in Ukraine at a price of $250 per kW, he said during the discussion of such an idea on Twitter.

KIEV, March 13 – Clearstream international settlement and custody organization and the depository of the National Bank of Ukraine are holdings talks on establishing a link between the structures: opening mutual depository accounts, Deputy NBU Governor Oleh Churiy said.

KIEV, March 13 - Azerbaijani Minister of Economy Shahin Mustafayev said Azerbaijan intends to open a trade house in Kiev to stimulate exports to Ukraine.