KIEV, Feb 12 - Ukraine plans to increase ferroalloy output in February from the previous month as demand for the commodity has been growing, UkrFa, an association of Ukrainian ferroalloy producers, reported Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 12 – The Economy Ministry has started issuing the first licenses for grain exports according to grain export quotas of 1.2 million tons, Ukrainian Grain Association President, Volodymyr Klymenko, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – The state’s 67.79% stake in Ukrtelecom, which was put up for sale at an auction, will be sold for at least $7 billion, Transport and Communications Minister Yosyp Vinsky said in an interview with the Business weekly newspaper.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – Representatives of the State Nuclear Regulatory Committee and the non-profit European Economic Interest Group Riskaudit IRSN/GRS International (France) have completed their inspection of the Khmelnytsky Nuclear Power Plant, the plant's information center reported.

MOSCOW, Feb. 11 - Demand for rolled steel products in Ukraine will grow 21% to 11.5 million tons in 2008, Ukrainian Metal Traders Association president Andriy Fedoseyev told Interfax.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – Ukrainian companies and banks will have to pay almost $7 billion to service and pay off foreign long-term debts, including $2.8 billion in H1, according to an analytical note by the Institute of Economics and Forecasting given to the press during hearings on anti-inflation measures.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – Ukrsotsbank will raise $150 million as a subordinated loan from UniCredit Group, said Ukrsotsbank Chairman Borys Timonkin.

KIEV, Feb. 12 - The Kiev city authorities are planning to issue $250 million in eurobonds in 2007, according to a statement posted on the city administration's official website citing Viktor Padalka, deputy head of the Kiev city administration and head of the city's main financial department.

KIEV, Feb. 12 - Italy's UniCredit Bank and Bank Austria Creditanstalt have proposed serving as financial advisors in the upcoming privatization of Ukrtelecom based on their experience in privatizing similar companies in Central and Eastern Europe, Vitaly Lukianenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian first deputy prime minister, told Interfax.

KIEV, Feb. 9 ??“ Smart-group is to invest about $1 billion into the reconstruction of Makiyivka Metallurgical Plant in order to improve its production efficiency and increase the plant's output capacity.