ZAPORIZHIA, Feb. 3 – Ukraine's largest bridge construction company, Kiev-based OJSC Mostobud, which is a general contractor in a project to build a viaduct across the Dnieper River in Zaporizhia, is in talks with the U.S. Sunland Group Corporation on raising a loan for construction projects.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – Zaporizhia-based engine-producer Motor Sich is to increase its supply of helicopter engines to Russia by 20% in 2009, CEO and General Director of the company Viacheslav Bohuslayev has said.

"We are planning to supply 400 engines this year," he told journalists in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – The Antimonopoly Committee announced it has given the thumbs-up to TBIH Financial Services Group N.V. (the Netherlands) for the acquisition of a stake in Ukrainian Insurance Group, the AMC press service said in a statement.

KIEV, Feb. 1 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny has sent a letter to the National Electricity Regulatory Commission of Ukraine with a proposal to review the prices of gas for households after the heating season.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – Ukrainian businessman Konstiantyn Zhevaho, a large shareholder in Ferrexpo mining company, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange, has proposed to invest EUR80 million in the circulating funds of Kremikovtzi steel mill, Bulgaria's largest steel mill, Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said.

KRYVY RIH, Feb. 1 - Arcelor Mittal Kryviy Rih increased net sales by 30.6% to UAH18.8 billion in 2007, Ukraine's biggest steelmaker reported.

Production rose 6% to 7.2 million tons of pig iron, 7.1% to 8.1 million tons of crude steel and 3.8% to 7.1 million tons of commercial rolled products.

LVIV, Feb. 1 - The priority for the Coal Ministry in the coming years is to increase coal extraction and wages for miners, Coal Minister Viktor Poltavets said at the Lvivvuhillia state company in the Lviv region settlement of Sokal.

KIEV, Feb. 1 - Emergencies Minister Volodymyr Shandra and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Vice President Horst Reichenbach discussed construction operations at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a project financed by the international community.

KIEV, Feb. 4 - The Prosecutor General’s Office said Monday it filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel the sale of a majority stake in aluminum smelter ZALK to a Russian group seven years ago, alleging the group has failed to meet investment obligations.

MILANO, Feb. 4 – Intesa Sanpaolo, an Italian banking group, said Monday it had agreed to pay 504 million euros for 100% of Pravex Bank, a mid-sized Ukrainian bank, marking the group’s expansion in Eastern Europe.