KIEV, Feb. 7 – Solarenergo LLC has completed the construction of a solar power plant with an installed capacity of 9.806 MW in Skadovsk district of Kherson region, the Dilova Stolytsia (Business Capital) reported.

KIEV, Feb. 7 – Ukraine is preparing to send to Iraq a batch of 40 BTR-4 armored personnel carriers assembled in Kharkiv under a major Ukrainian-Iraqi contract for military hardware.

LVIV, Feb. 7 - Lviv Regional Council will not agree to a production sharing agreement with Chevron, which foresees shale gas production, until it gets answers to questions about environmental threats to the region, Regional Council Chairman Petro Kolodiy said on Thursday.

MOSCOW/KIEV, Feb. 8 – Ukraine has agreed on duty-free supplies of 120,000 tons of steel pipe to Russia in H1.

A protocol on amending the agreement on the regulation of supplies of some types of steel pipes from Ukraine to Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan was posted on the official online legal portal.

KIEV, Feb. 8 - Ukraine has been seeking Qatar investments to support its $1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal project, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry reported Friday.

KIEV, Feb. 10 – The state will recapitalize Rodovid Bank by UAH 7.5 billion to ensure the transfer of deposits of individuals from the troubled Nadra Bank to Rodovid Bank), reads joint resolution of the Ukrainian cabinet and the National Bank of Ukraine No. 1430 of December 23 posted on the cabinet's Web site on Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 10 – The Ukrainian cabinet has denied all the allegations raised by Centragas Holding AG, a shareholder in RosUkrEnergo, in respect of transaction related to 11 billion cubic meters of gas that was carried out in early 2009.

KIEV, Feb. 8 – The share of bad loans in Ukraine in December 2009 grew by 0.6 interest point to 9.4% as of January 1, 2010, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

The amount of bad loans in monetary terms in December expanded by 7.1%, or UAH 4.618 billion, to UAH 69.935 billion.

KIEV, Feb. 8 - Ukrainian iron ore miners and steel producers could boost output for core products at least 7%-8% in 2010, an Industrial Policy Ministry representative told Interfax, quoting figures from the Metallurgprom association.

KIEV, Feb. 9 - TNK-BP oil company cut investment in the Lysychansk oil refinery (CJSC LINIK, Luhansk region) by 26% in 2009, to some $40 million, TNK-BP Commerce Ltd. spokesman Dmytro Zverev told Interfax-Ukraine.