KIEV, Aug. 5 – State-run company UkrSpecExport has signed a contract worth $140 million for the supply of an additional batch of 121 BTR-3E1 armored personnel carriers to the Royal Thai Army, said Dmytro Salamatin, director general of Ukroboronprom Concern.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – Ukraine's State Statistics Service for the first time this year registered deflation, which was 1.3% in July 2011 against 0.4% inflation in June 2011, 0.8% inflation in May 2011, 1.3% inflation in April 2011 and 1.4% inflation in March 2011.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – The banks of Kiev region still have the problem of having a high share of bad assets, the chief department of the National Bank of Ukraine for Kiev city and Kiev region said in a letter to the banks.

KIEV, Aug. 8 – The average expert assessments of Ukraine's GDP growth in 2012 were improved in August to 5.4% compared to 5.1% in March, reads a posting on the Web site of the Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Ministry.

KIEV, Aug. 8 – Ukraine's state oil and gas company Naftogaz and Italy's ENI S.p.A. has signed an agreement on cooperation in exploring the geological properties of Ukraine's mineral resources on land and offshore on the Black Sea shelf, Naftogaz announced on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – Ukraine's Fuel and Energy Ministry hopes to sign a loan agreement with Russia on financing the construction of Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant's third and fourth reactors by the end of 2010.

However, Deputy Fuel and Energy Minister Natalia Shumkova said that a number of questions remain unsettled.

KIEV, Aug. 5 - As of Thursday morning at least 625 hectares of forest have been burned by wildfires that broke out in Ukraine on Wednesday, State Forestry Committee spokesman Andriy Solimov said.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – The removal of floating restaurants from Kiev's waterfront is evidence of the redistribution of spheres of influence, according to Ihor Lutsenko, an activist of the Let's Preserve Old Kiev Group.

KIEV, Aug. 5 - Natural gas transit through Ukraine to Europe and the CIS in January-July 2010 amounted to 57.641 billion cubic meters in January-July, which is 20.69% (or 9.88 bcm) up on 2009, Ukrtransgaz, a subsidiary of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, has reported.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – The adoption of the recently published tax code would worsen the situation in small business, according to a lawyer from ILF law firm, Ivanna Pohrebniak.