KIEV, Jan. 27 – At present some 20 billion cubic meters of natural gas is stored in Ukrainian underground storage facilities, which is 15% down compared to late December 2009, when some 23.5 billion cubic meters of gas was stored, Bohdan Sokolovsky, a presidential envoy for international energy security, said at a press conference on Tuesday.

KIEV, Jan. 27 - Ukraine plans to borrow on the foreign market in April-May and has already begun talks on the matter, acting Finance Minister Ihor Umansky said.

"Perhaps we will manage to do it in the first quarter. But in April-May we definitely can and will get to foreign markets," he said. "We already have proposals from a host of investment banks and funds," he told journalists in Kiev on Wednesday.

LVIV, Jan. 28 - Lviv Bus Plant, part of the LAZ Holding, on Jan. 26 resumed operations.

Its director general, Serhiy Chelyapin, said at a press conference on Tuesday that due to the difficult situation at the plant, its leadership decided to reorganize its work.

KIEV, Jan. 28 – Britain's Regal Petroleum Plc has started drilling at the Mekhedivska-Holotovschynska field, using two new deep drilling machines.

According to the company, a LEWCO 2000HP drilling machine now in use has a capacity of 2,000 liters and a carrying capacity of 500 tons, which allows the drilling of vertical wells up to 8,000 meters deep, as well as horizontal downgrade drilling.

KIEV, Jan. 25 - The Nuclear Fuel of Ukraine State Concern will be created in tandem with the liquidation of Ukratomprom Concern, according to Deputy Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Nedashkovsky.

KIEV, Jan. 25 - Zaporizhia Car Building Plant (ZAZ), one of the leading car producers in Ukraine, in the coming three years plans to create production facilities to produce 100,000-120,000 cars at a new plant outside Zaporizhia, UkrAvto Corporation Deputy Chairman Oleh Papashev said.

KIEV, Jan. 28 - French banking group Societe Generale (SG) may acquire 75% plus one share in Ukraine's Kreditprombank (Kiev) for EUR450 million, the Ekonomicheskie Izvestia newspaper reported.

MOWCOW, Jan. 26 - The Russian Trading System, the country??™s biggest stock exchange, plans to acquire 60% of Ukraine??™s Innex Stock Exchange, formerly known as the Donetsk Stock Exchange, RTS President Oleg Safonov told Interfax.

KIEV, Jan. 26 ??“ Finland's Ruukki Corporation is to invest EUR15 million to build a roofing and moldings plant in Ukraine, its fourth plant in the country, the corporation's president and CEO Sakari Tamminen said.

KYIV, Dec 25 – The auction commission for the sale of the state-owned 99.9952% stake in Sumykhimprom has set its starting price at the future ProZorro auction at UAH 1.158 billion and the terms of privatization, which, together with the price, are subject to government approval.