KIEV, May 10 – Austria's EPIC has transferred UAH 10.5751 billion to Ukraine's State Property Fund as payment for a 92.79% stake in telecoms giant OJSC Ukrtelecom, sold at a tender, the SPF said in a statement on Tuesday.

KIEV, May 10 – The capacity of the Ukrainian construction materials market expanded by 7% in 2010, to UAH 46.6 billion, reads a press release of the Personal Analytical Unit information and analytical agency (PAU, Kyiv).

KIEV, May 11 – Kiev city is 26th in the world and 13th in the EMEA region in office construction, reads a press release of the Ukrainian representative office of Colliers International consulting company (Kiev).

According to a survey of key indicators of the office real estate market in the world and the EMEA region as of early 2011, construction of offices, rent rates, vacancy, capitalization rates in main cities of the world were taken into account in the survey.

KIEV, May 11 - Ukraine saw gas production fall by 2% or by 134.4 million cubic meters (bcm) in January-April 2011 year-on-year, to 6.704 billion cubic meters, with natural gas output falling by 1.7% or by 113.9 million cubic meters, to 6.429 bcm, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 7 – Thirty-seven banks in Ukraine operated with losses January through March 2010, which was 21.1% of the overall number of operating banks in Ukraine over that period, the National Bank of Ukraine said on its Web site.

KIEV, May 11 – Stock market participants say that the aggressive selling seen on the Ukrainian shares market, taking into account its high volatility, represent an adjustment provoked by strong external negative trends, rather than being a signal of a second wave of crisis.

KIEV, May 11 – April's deflation, a result of a restricted monetary policy and the responsible activities of the Ukrainian government in the fiscal sphere, opens the way to cutting the interest rates of the National Bank of Ukraine, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the NBU governor.

KIEV, May 8 - SABMiller, which produces beers including Miller and Peroni Nastro Azzurro, has made its first foray into Ukraine with the acquisition of one of its largest brewers, the Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.

KIEV, May 8 – Ukraine’s government on Thursday canceled a special license awarded last year to Vanco Energy, an independent U.S. oil company, to search and produce oil and gas from a Black Sea offshore area.

KIEV, May 6 - Donbass Fuel and Energy Company (DTEK) produced 4.413 million tons of coal in Q1, 12.1% more than the same period a year earlier.

Energy coal production totaled 3.613 million tons (up 8.6% year-on-year) and coking coal production rose to 0.800 million tons (up 30.7%). Improved technology and measures to improve operations drove the production gains.