KIEV, April 30 - Western Union Company is in talks on the payment of foreign currency transfers in hryvnias with the National Bank of Ukraine.

"A chance to receive money transfers in hryvnias is an important advantage for Western Union's clients in Ukraine. At present, the company is holding talks with the NBU to continue paying transfers in hryvnias," reads a company report.

LONDON, April 30 - Fitch Ratings has assigned DTEK Finance B.V.'s $500 million 9.5% five-year eurobond issue a foreign currency senior unsecured rating of 'B-' with a Recovery Rating of 'RR4'.

The agency said in a statement: "DTEK Finance B.V. is a finance vehicle for DTEK Holdings B.V., the Dutch ultimate holding company for the DTEK group, which consists of operating companies in the coal mining and power sector in Ukraine.

KIEV, April 30 – The State Property Fund has signed a confidential agreement with a fourth company that wants to bid in a tender to sell a 76.001% stake in OJSC Luhanskteplovoz Holding.

The fund said that the bidder is registered in a foreign state.

Market players say that Russia's Transmashholding is the most likely foreign bidder in the tender.

BRUSSELS, April 30 – The European Commission does not plan to take any measures on the facts of the supply onto the EU market of Ukrainian-produced sunflower oil which contained particles of hydrocarbons, Michael Mann, an EC spokesperson for agriculture and rural development, said at a briefing in Brussels on Wednesday.

ZAPORIZHIA, May 5 – A Ukrainian-German joint venture for garbage processing, Remondis Zaporizhia Ltd., has been created in Zaporizhia, according to Zaporizhia Mayor Yevhen Kartashov.

MOSCOW, May 5 - Severstal-Metiz, the hardware division of Severstal, has increased its stake in Ukraine's Dniprometiz plant to 95% from 60%, the Russian company announced.

KIEV, May 5 - Rising budget outlays on social programs remain a major inflationary factor in Ukraine, the National Bank said in its fiscal survey for the first quarter of 2008.

KIEV, May 5 – Deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat Oksana Sliusarenko and United Arab Emirates Foreign Trade Minister Lubna al-Qasimi have discussed the prospects of companies from the UAE participating in projects related to Euro 2012.

KIEV, May 5 - Experts from the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry monitoring the seacoast have discovered another area on the coast of Tuzla Spit polluted with oil products.

KYIV, April 1 - The hryvnia exchange rate, after weakening at the end of March, will strengthen in the second quarter due to increased sales of foreign currency by farmers before the start of field work, according to a poll of financial analysts at commercial banks.