KIEV, Oct. 27 – The deficit of the current account of Ukraine's balance of payments in September 2010 more than halved compared to August: from $565 million to $259 million, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank of Ukraine governor.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – The position of Ukraine's armored vehicle industry is seen as the most promising among all branches of national industry, the Ukrainian Industry Ministry said on Monday, following a council held by Industry Minister Volodymyr Novytsky at Malyshev Plant in Kharkiv last week.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – Around 25-30 banks are delaying payments to their clients, the president of the Association of Ukrainian Banks (AUB), Oleksandr Suhoniako, said on Tuesday.

"Around 25 banks have problems with a delay in payments, including to the public," he said.

KIEV, Oct. 28 - Russian oil major Lukoil will probably restart its Ukrainian oil refinery in November, a month after it was shut down due to disagreement with an oil shipper, a Ukrainian government official said Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 27 – The construction of a new D passenger terminal has started at Boryspil International Airport.

An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported that Transport and Communications Minister Yosyp Vinsky, the Japanese ambassador to Ukraine, Tadashi Izawa, the Turkish ambassador to Ukraine, Erdogan Iscan, representatives of local authorities, the president of Turkey's Dogus/Alarko/YDA Company, which will build the terminal, Burak Talu, and the director general of state enterprise Boryspil International Airport, Borys Shakhsuvarov, took part in the Friday ceremony devoted to the start of the terminal's construction.

KIEV, Oct. 27 – Zaporizhia Car Building Plant (ZAZ) in the near future may cut production by 40% due to the financial crisis, although measures taken by UkrAvto Corporation, which incorporates ZAZ, are ensuring a stable financial state at the company, MP Tarieal Vasadze, honorary president of UkrAvto, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 28 –The adoption of an anti-crisis law is needed to receive the more than $16 billion allocated by the International Monetary Fund to Ukraine, although the bill is not enough to overcome consequences of the world's financial crisis for the country, according to Serhiy Tihipko, chairman of Swedbank and co-chairman of the Ukrainian government’s Council of Investors.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – Olena Franchuk's AntiSPID [anti-AIDS] Fund, as well as the offices of the UN and the USAID in Ukraine and the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, has called on Ukrainian business to take more active part in stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS in Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – Seventeen foreign companies are interested in developing copper deposits in Volyn, in particular, the Rafaliv copper deposit (situated in Volyn and Rivne regions), which could yield an estimated 25.1-25.8 million tons of copper.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – Ukraine’s parliamentary election was officially validated on Saturday when two official newspapers printed names of elected lawmakers following a court ruling that deemed the vote as free and fair.