KIEV, April 7 – Large agricultural holdings polled by Interfax-Ukraine have said that they have enough nitrogen fertilizers to meet 70-100% of their needs for the spring sowing campaign.

KIEV, April 9 - Ukraine’s largest mining and power generating company DTEK will become a key supplier of power to Moldova after defeating a Russian-owned regional energy company at an auction.

KIEV, April 6 - Investors from Kuwait intend to buy electric buses manufactured by Lviv Corporation Electron, Lviv Regional State Administration said on its website.

KIEV, April 8 - Ukraine reduced natural gas consumption by 10.4% in March compared to the same period in 2014, to 3.537 billion cubic meters, Naftogaz Ukrayiny reported.

KIEV, April 8 - Rating and Investment Information, Inc. (R&I, Japan) has downgraded Ukraine's Foreign Currency Issuer Rating to 'CC' from 'CCC', Long-term Issue Rating to 'CC' from 'CCC.'

KIEV, April 8 - Ukraine’s war with pro-Russian separatists and severe economic fragility have shaken investor confidence in the solvency of the country’s banks and companies, leaving some of their biggest corporate names struggling to pay their debts, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, April 9 – The Japanese government has confirmed it plans to provide a JPY 108 billion loan to reconstruct the Bortnychi aeration station in Kiev, Kyivvodokanal Chairman and Director General Andriy Bilyk said at a roundtable talk in Kiev on Wednesday, with reference to tentative information from the Japanese Embassy in Ukraine.

KIEV, April 9 – Metinvest has negotiated to shift repayment of the remaining $90 million of seller notes outstanding from 2015 to 2016, the company said in a report on the Irish Stock Exchange on Wednesday.

KIEV, April 9 – The price pace in April-June will be defined by the increase in the tariffs for utility services and the exchange rate fluctuations, the National Bank of Ukraine said.

KIEV, April 9 - Poland will grant Ukraine a credit worth EUR 100 million, a part of which will be spent to arrange the border, and another portion – to modernize thermal power plants, President Petro Poroshenko said.