KIEV, May 28 – Ukraine and Indonesia will create a working group on trade and investment at the top executive agency to settle disputes as a part of preparations for a meeting of the bilateral intergovernmental commission scheduled for December in Kiev.

KIEV, May 28 – Ukraine's state-owned EnergoAtom has lost UAH114 million due to flawed nuclear fuel assemblies made by Westinghouse, the State Finance Inspectorate of Ukraine reported on Monday.

KIEV, May 28 – The positive trends in Ukraine's balance of payments in March were reinforced in April, which brought the country close to a point of absolute balance over the four months ending April 2012, said Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank of Ukraine governor.

KIEV, May 28 - Ukraine needs to hike gas prices for domestic consumers and let its currency trade more flexibly if it wants to get funds flowing again under its suspended International Monetary Fund bailout, an IMF official was quoted as saying.

KIEV, May 26 – The RusAl company (Russia) will challenge in the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine a verdict of Kiev Economic Court of Appeals, which upheld a ruling of the court of lower instance on the cancellation of an agreement on the sale and purchase of a 68.015 stake in opened joint-stock company Zaporizhia Aluminum Smelter (ZAlK) and the return of the stake to the state.

KIEV, May 28 - Zagope-Construcoes e Engenharia SA (Porto Salvo, Portugal), part of Brazil's Groupe Andare Gutierrez, has won a tender to draw up a EUR757,000 feasibility study for the extension of the city orbital road in Kiev.

KIEV, May 28 – Ukraine and the United States are working out a schedule of work at a joint facility being built at the Pavlohrad Chemical Plant in Dnipropetrovsk region as part of the program to dispose of solid rocket fuel from SS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles.

KIEV, May 26 – HeidelbergCement Ukraine, part of the HeidelbergCement Group, is revising the forecast for cement output at its plants in 2009 downwards, said Amvrosiyivka Plant Director Oleksandr Bizhko.

KIEV, May 26 – The Ukrainian cabinet has allocated UAH250 million to reimburse defaulted Soviet-era deposits in Sberbank and Gosstrakh.

A total of UAH 87million would be sent to depositors who have not received refunding of no more than UAH1,000 per depositor, as foreseen in a cabinet resolution of Jan. 9, 2008, in the order that they submitted information to the register of defaulted Soviet-era depositors.

KIEV, May 27 – Rivneazot, one of the largest chemical companies in Ukraine, has had to cease operation of its sewage treatment plants due to the full stoppage of natural gas deliveries to the company, a source at the company told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

The source said that the plant treated around 70% of the sewage in Rivne.

"The present situation is critical," he said.