KIEV, Sept. 9 – State-controlled Oschadbank has repaid refinancing loans issued by the National Bank of Ukraine in 2008-2009 for UAH 3 billion earlier than expected.

KIEV, Sept. 6 – The government plans in the near future to prepare the necessary documents, according to which after sending an old car for recycling Ukrainian citizens will be able to receive compensation of about UAH 12,000 for the purchase of a new, Ukrainian-made car, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boiko said.

KIEV, Sept. 6 - Ukrlandfarming, the largest Ukrainian agricultural holding in terms of its land bank, is increasing its land bank from 532,000 hectares to about 670,000 hectares through the purchase of the Ukrainian assets of Valinor agricultural holding and about 20 other agricultural enterprises, the head of the company's board of directors and company owner, Oleh Bakhmatiuk, has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 6 – The application of a risk profile to Ukrainian exporters by the Russian Federal Customs Service, which has resulted in the suspension of supplies of Ukrainian goods, is not in line with the requirements of the World Trade Organization and the agreement on the free trade zone with the CIS, Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister Ihor Prasolov said in Ukrainian Parliament on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 6 – The cost of measures to develop the transport and street-road network in Kiev over the next five years amounts to UAH 38.909 billion, or UAH 7.782 billion every year.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – The forex rate of the hryvnia against the U.S. dollar in September will range within UAH 8.40 and UAH 8.20 per U.S. dollar, and the general weakening of the national currency will not go beyond UAH 8.50 per U.S. dollar, according to the Independent Association of Banks of Ukraine (IABU).

KIEV, Sept. 9 – The State Property Fund has included 45 coalmines into a list of coalmines that are to be prepared for privatization in 2013.

The list is stipulated in SPF order No. 2212 of September 6, 2013, a copy of which has been sent to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 9 - Industrial prices in Ukraine grew by 1.2% in August, following declined of 2.9% in July and 2.7% in June, the State Statistics Service reported.

The service said that since early 2013, industrial prices in the country have grown by 1.9%.

The report says that a fall of 0.9% in annual terms was registered in August (year-over-year).

KIEV, Sept. 6 – Ukraine’s government is doing everything it can to improve the competitiveness of the ferroalloy sector, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry said.

KIEV, Sept. 6 – A deal on the acquisition of Forum Bank by Smart-holding from Germany's Commerzbank is at the stage of approval at the Antimonopoly Committee and the National Bank of Ukraine, and its closure is expected by late October, Smart-holding Investment Director Denys Rudev told Interfax-Ukraine on September 5, 2012.