KIEV, May 7 ??“ VAB Bank has raised a 12-month syndicated loan worth $51 million, the bank reported in a press release.

KIEV, May 7 ??“ The gross international reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine rose by 2.2% in April to $23.48 billion, the NBU reported on its official Web site on Monday.

KIEV, May 7 - Ukraine??™s oil shipping monopoly UkrTransNafta plans to buy 200,000 metric tons of crude oil within the next two months in order to increase the country??™s reserves of petroleum products, Energy and Fuel Minister Yuriy Boyko said Monday.

The oil will be purchased from Russia and will be refined in May and June at Linos, a Ukrainian oil refinery owned by Russian oil major TNK-BP, according to source at the ministry.

KIEV, May 7 - System Capital Management, an industrial conglomerate owned by Rinat Akhmetov, the wealthiest Ukrainian businessman, said its profits rose 43% on the year to 1.23 billion hryvnias in 2006, an official said.

KIEV, May 7 - A major Ukrainian natural gas pipeline was hit by an explosion on Monday potentially jeopardizing supplies of gas from Russia to the European Union, Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the state-owned oil and gas company, reported.

KYIV, April 4 – In March, bomb disposal engineer units of governmental and non-governmental operators of Ukraine examined more than 26,500 hectares of agricultural land and returned almost 23,500 hectares to economic use, reported First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko with reference to data from regional military administrations.

KYIV, April 4 – Industrial production in Ukraine in 2023 grew by 5.9%, while in 2022, according to updated data, the fall was 36.7%, the State Statistics Service reported.

KYIV, April 5 – Ukraine has resumed container shipping on the Black Sea: a ship with containers called at one of the ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk, on April 3, the Odesa publication Dumskaya reported.

KYIV, April 6 – On April 5, Ukrainian and Polish railway workers are jointly conducting a test trip along the route Lublin - Rava-Ruska on the 1,435 mm European track, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine and Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development Oleksandr Kubrakov has said.

KYIV, April 6 – Datagroup-Volia has launched Eurocloud, a commercial cloud service (IaaS) (Infrastructure as a Service), based on a data center in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), focused on Ukrainian business, the company said in a press release.