KIEV, Feb. 4 – The World Bank could provide $200 million in financing to Ukraine in 2012 to develop programs for its water and heat supply systems, according to Yuriy Khyvrych the first deputy Regional Development, Construction and Utility Economy minister.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that the terms of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund under which the fund provides lending to Ukraine could be reviewed if the Ukrainian market does not develop as rapidly as planned.

MOSCOW, Feb. 7 – Ukraine's Avangard Holding, one of the largest egg producers in the country, plans to invest up to $500 million in two projects to boost its egg production.

KIEV, Feb. 7 – The introduction of duties for imported petroleum products in Ukraine will not solve the current problems in the oil-refining sector, according to Rompetrol-Ukraine Ltd. Director General Vladyslav Rusnak.

KIEV, Feb. 7 - Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office has launched criminal proceedings against the director general of the state-run enterprise National Center for Hazardous Waste Management under the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry for taking a $10,000 bribe.

KIEV, Feb. 5 - Ukraine and Russia agreed to hike by 63% the fee that Ukraine charges for transit of Russian natural gas to markets in the European Union, a senior official at Naftogaz Ukrayiny said Friday.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – A recent jump in the prices of sugar has been made artificially, according to the Agriculture Ministry.

"The sugar market is enough saturated. Price problems seen recently have been created artificially," first deputy agriculture minister Yuriy Luzan said.

KIEV, Feb. 5 – The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has found that the dumping of hot-rolled carbon steel plate and high-strength low-alloy steel plate originating in or exported from Ukraine had not caused injury but was threatening to cause injury to Canadian industry.

LVIV, Feb. 6 – A tended commission has endorsed a resolution unanimously to announce Alpine Bau GmbH of Austria the winner in a tender to build a stadium in Lviv by Euro 2012, Lviv First Deputy Mayor Oleh Siniutka said at a briefing on Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 6 - The Ukrainian government has approved a plan to place Ukrtelecom shares in a tender offering 67.79% of shares that will reduce the state stake in the company to 25% plus one share, said State Property Fund deputy head Dmytro Parfenenko.