KIEV, May 10 – Ukrainian special-purpose exporters are alarmed at the threat of failure of a large contract with China worth over $300 million and want their country’s leaders to remove the legal obstacles to the deal, according to Vitaliy Kryvenko, director general of the Feodosia-based OJSC Morye shipyard (Crimea).

KIEV, May 7 – The average number of employees in Ukrainian banks in Q1 was 224,300, which is 6.8% or 16,300 employees less than in the previous quarter, according to a posting on the Web site of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, May 10 - Ukraine is not planning to change its border with Romania, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko.

BRUSSELS, May 7 – The Energy Community expects in one month a response from Ukraine to a request to clarify the situation regarding the intentions of the new leadership in the context of further cooperation with this organization, said Energy Community Secretariat Director Slavtcho Neykov.

KIEV, May 6 – Lysychansk oil refinery (CJSC LINIK, Luhansk region) on May 1 was stopped for a scheduled two-month overhaul, according to TNK-BP Commerce Ltd.

KIEV, May 7 - Industrial prices in Ukraine grew by 3% in April, the same as in March, while in January and February they grew by 1.9%, the State Statistics Committee reported.

MOSCOW, May 7 - Gazprom is thinking of entering the Ukrainian compressed natural gas (CNG) engine fuel market, one of the FSU's biggest.

Gazprom Sales Ukraine has sent out requests for quotations for contracts worth up to $220,000 each, to perform a financial feasibility study to buy compressed natural gas filling stations in Ukraine, and to draft a business plan to build and expand infrastructure to sell compressed gas.

KIEV, May 7 – The euro exchange rate depreciation is having a speculative influence on the reevaluation of risks of securities in emerging markets, causing a fall in Ukrainian stock indicators, although the financial state of most Ukrainian companies will not significantly change, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 7 – The further weakening of the euro exchange rate to the dollar and hryvnia could cut its attractiveness to Ukrainians as a currency to use to save money, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 7 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is allocating financial support of $125 million to subsidiaries of UniCredit Group in Ukraine – Kiev-based Ukrsotsbank and UniCredit Leasing Ukraine.