KIEV, July 3 – The gross international reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine in June grew by 2.98%, or $1.026 billion, to $35.439 billion, whereas in May 2008 they expanded by 3.2%, or $1.075 billion, the NBU said.

KIEV, July 4 – Donetsk-based System Capital Management has joined the Go Green national environment protection campaign, which was initiated by the UN representative office in Ukraine.

KIEV, July 4 – The National Bank of Ukraine will defy pressure to hike key interest rates and will keep them unchanged for now despite galloping consumer prices, NBU Governor Volodymyr Stelmakh said Friday.

ALMATY, July 5 - Lukoil Overseas, which operates the international projects of Lukoil, has started to export oil produced at the Karachaganak field in Kazakhstan via the Ukrainian port of Odessa, the company said.

KIEV, July 6 ??“ TNK-BP, a Russian oil company, does not plan to cancel an agreement on the use of Odessa-Brody pipeline to move oil for exports via a terminal near Odessa, TNK-BP Ukraine Ltd. President Oleksandr Horodetsky said.

KIEV, July 6 ??“ Ukraine plans in two months to call for a review of anti-dumping duties imposed by the European Union on Ukrainian seamless pipes, after a special monitoring, Economy Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, July 6 - Ukraine??™s third largest oil and gas company, ChornomorNaftoGaz, tapped off-shore fields to increase natural gas output 0.8% on the year to 617.1 million cu m in January-June, the company??™s press service said Thursday.

KIEV, July 5 - The Luhanskteplovoz holding company, the CIS's monopoly manufacturer of main freight diesel locomotives, estimates it needs investment of UAH300 million for modernization and production growth.

KIEV, July 5 ??“ Foreign banks may show interest in eight of the top 11 banks in Ukraine, Ukrsotsbank Governor Borys Timonkin says.

KIEV, July 6 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a law on the ratification of an agreement between the governments of Ukraine and Japan on a loan for the development of Kiev's Boryspil state international airport, the presidential press service reported on Tuesday.