KIEV, June 8 – State-run Chornomornaftogaz (Simferopol, Crimea) has paid $202 million to a company building it a drilling platform, according to Yevhen Bakulin, head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, June 7 – Ukraine and the People's Republic of China are developing cooperation on a construction program of for China's new L-15 training aircraft, said Ihor Kravchenko, chief designer of Zaporizhia-based Ivchenko-Progress State Enterprise.

KIEV, June 7 – The capital investment of State Railways Administration Ukrzaliznytsia in 2011 will amount to UAH 16.5 billion, Ukrzaliznytsia First Deputy Director General Mykola Serhiyenko told reporters on Tuesday.

KIEV, June 7 – Ukrnafta has announced the appointment of four new top managers, including that of Alan Sutton, who until recently was acting Chief Financial Officer at Cadogan Petroleum plc with assets in Ukraine, as Director of Economic Affairs.

KIEV, June 7 - Grain exports from Ukraine over the 11 months of the current marketing year (MY, from July 2010) amounted to 10.5 million tons, which is almost 10 million tons less than in the same period of the previous marketing year, Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation (UAC) Director General Serhiy Stoyanov told reporters.

KIEV, June 8 - The National Bank of Ukraine reduced the discount rate on Tuesday from 10.25% to 9.5%, the NBU said in a statement.

The NBU had held the discount rate at 10.25% since August 12, 2009.

KIEV, June 8 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny will have to give gas trader RosUkrEnergo 12.1 billion cubic meters of stored gas following an arbitration court ruling in Stockholm, RosUkrEnergo shareholder Centragas reported Tuesday.

MOSCOW, June 8 – Russia's Rosatom is ready to take part in the production of nuclear fuel in Ukraine, finish construction of Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant and cooperate with Ukraine's Turboatom, Rosatom head Sergey Kirienko said on the Echo of Moscow radio station.

KIEV, June 8 – Industrial producers' prices in Ukraine grew by 4.4% in May, up from the 3% readings seen in March and April and 1.9% in February and January, the State Statistics Committee reported.

KIEV, June 8 – The National Bank of Ukraine will support the Ukrainian economy by printing money, although the central bank believes that this step is undesirable, according to Oleksandr Arseniuk, the deputy director of the monetary policy department at the NBU.