KIEV, Feb. 7 – Banks with Russian capital in Ukraine have been restricted in activity and are operating under supervision of a curator and looking for a buyer, Deputy National Bank of Ukraine Governor Kateryna Rozhkova said at a press conference in Kiev on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, Feb. 8 - VTB is continuing negotiations on the sale of its Ukrainian subsidiary with all interested parties, the Russian state bank's press service said on the lender's Facebook page.

KIEV, Feb. 8 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers at a meeting on Wednesday ordered the Finance Ministry to take measures to attract a financial advisor to help Ukraine to enter the foreign capital market.

KIEV, Feb. 9 – The rules to distribute UAH 4 billion subsidies among agricultural producers in 2017 were approved at a government meeting on Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 5 - The Antimonopoly Committee will seek the payment of a UAH 85.966 billion fine imposed on Gazprom (the Russian Federation) in the manner prescribed by law and international treaties, Yuriy Terentyev, head of the committee, wrote on his Facebook page.

KIEV, Feb. 5 – The surplus of Ukraine's consolidated balance of payments in 2015 reached $849 million, while in 2014 its deficit was $13.3 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported on its website.

KIEV, Feb. 5 – Ukraine since the beginning of 2015-2016 agricultural year (July-June) as of February 3, 2016 had exported 23.85 million tons of grain, including 11.066 million tons of wheat, 3.94 million tons of barley and 8.691 million tons of corn.

KIEV, Feb 8 – The discount to the price of Russian natural gas settled during the latest autumn trilateral gas talks has allowed Naftogaz Ukrayiny to save UAH 1 billion, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said.

KIEV, Feb. 6 – Ukrainian mining and metallurgical holding Metinvest is taking measures to halt its Yenakiyeve and Makiyivka metallurgical plants in Donetsk region due to ongoing hostilities in Donbas and problems with cargo transportation by rail.

KIEV, Feb. 6 – Pending repayment of its eurobonds worth $1.6 billion in September 2014, Naftogaz Ukrayiny may offer eurobond holders to swap the corporate papers for sovereign eurobonds, according to analysts from Sberbank CIB.