KYIV, Nov 6 - Over 100 water sports complexes worth about $1 billion will be built in Ukraine over the next five years, First Deputy President of the Ukrainian Swimming Federation Volodymyr Shumilin has said at the international conference "City and Modern Swimming Pool."

KYIV, Nov 6 – Hong Kong-based Madison Pacific Trust Limited, a new trustee for $175 million loan participation notes (LPN) of PrivatBank due on February 28, 2018 and $200 million LPN due on January 23, 2018 sent a notice to the bank that it is seeking to early collect the debt (the acceleration notice), UK SPV Credit Finance Plc (Britain) has reported on the website of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

KYIV, Nov 7 - Valeriy Shandra, board chairman of Kuznya on Rybalsky, President PEtrio Poroshenko’s business, has refuted reports about the purchase of armored vehicles by the State Border Guard Service at an inflated price.

KYIV, Nov 7 – President Petro Poroshenko’s confectionary business, Roshen Corporation, paid UAH 1.213 billion of taxes to the national budget of Ukraine in January-October 2017, the corporation's press service reported.

KYIV, Nov 7 – Ukrainian metal companies tentatively decreased coke production by 20% in January-October 2017 year-over-year, to 8.588 million tons, the Ukrmetallurgprom association (Dnipro) has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Nov 7 – The ad hoc privatization commission of Parliament is studying why the supervisory boards of public joint-stock companies Centrenergo and Turboatom do not have independent directors, Deputy Commission Head MP Pavlo Rizanenko said.

KYIV, Nov 8 - Thailand may buy Ukrainian armored personnel vehicles after Ukraine had displayed a combat-proven machine at exhibition in Bangkok, Yuriy Biriukov, an adviser to the Ukrainian defense minister, said Wednesday.

KYIV, Nov 7 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has confirmed the forecast for the growth of Ukraine's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017 at the level of 2%, in 2018 at 3%, according to a press release of the bank.

KYIV, Nov 8 – The National Bank of Ukraine on Tuesday gave green light for a business group owned by former Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko to acquire 99.9% of in VS Bank from Sberbank of Russia.

KYIV, Nov 7 – The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has notified two citizens of Austria that they are suspected of having committed a crime in a Skhidny Mining embezzlement case – director general and director of Steuermann company.