KIEV, Oct. 4 - The European Investment Bank will open a credit line of EUR200 million to finance investment in urban public transport to 20 municipalities in Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 3 – Ukraine hopes to start seeking reliable international financial institutions in the middle of 2018 to sell at least 20% of shares in the country's two largest state-owned banks, Oschadbank and Ukreximbank, a Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies by the Ukrainian government with the International Monetary Fund reads.

KIEV, Oct. 1 - Coal stored in the warehouses of Ukrainian thermal power plants from September 28 to September 30 increased by 5.6% or by 102,000 tons, to 1.902 million tons, according to Ukrenergo.

KIEV, Oct. 1 – Ukrnafta has paid UAH 200 million in dividends to the state for 2014, Chairman Mark Rollins told reporters on Thursday in Kiev.

"This week we've paid a part of dividends for 2014 – UAH 200 million. Dividends for 2014 have not been paid in the full amount – it is planned to finish [payments] by the end of this week or early next week," he said.

KIEV, Oct. 1 – The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine has asked Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk and Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko to suspend cabinet resolution No. 724 on the benchmarks of the customs value of imported goods.

KIEV, Oct. 2 - Rentechno (Kiev) announced it has completed the construction of a 1.331 MW solar power plant in Novoukrainka district in Kirovohrad region.

KIEV, Oct. 3 - Ukraine plans to announce tenders for production sharing agreements for four oil and gas sections at the end of 2012 and the start of 2013, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Eduard Stavytsky told journalists in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 3 – Russia's Gazprombank is interested in Ukrainian investment projects for the development of a terminal for receiving and regasifying liquefied natural gas and the completion of the City Ring Road around Kiev, Ukraine’s State Agency for Investment and National Projects said in a statement.

KIEV, Oct. 4 – The likelihood in the foreseeable future of the privatization of the Ukrainian defense sector is high, representatives of the sector say.

"The prospects of privatization in the defense sector, which have been discussed for several years, including in the corporate community, are obvious in nature: the sector requires investment for technological and technical modernization.

KIEV, Oct. 4 - Ukraine’s second deep-water self-elevating oil and gas drilling rig, Nezalezhnist, passed through Bosporus Strait to enter the Black Sea before reaching the country later this year, ChornomorNaftogaz reported on Thursday.