KIEV, Aug. 27 – The Sea Amazon, a dry cargo ship carrying cars demanded by Libyan businessmen to free Ukrainians they have taken captive, has departed from the port of Illichivsk (Odessa region) for the port of Benghazi (Libya), the Segodnya newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing the wife of the ship's mechanic, Volodymyr Zhorin, Natalia.

KIEV, Aug. 27 – Ukraine's decision to impose special duties on imported cars will be canceled automatically if the country signs an agreement on association and a free trade area with the European Union, Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara said.

MOSCOW, Aug. 27 - The return of the confectionery product of the Ukrainian company Roshen to the Russian market could take quite a long time, the head of Russia's Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Oversight Service (Rosselkhoznadzor) and Russia's senior state sanitary doctor, Gennady Onishchenko, has told Interfax.

MOSCOW, Aug. 27 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny’s imports of gas from Russia's Gazprom have been sharply higher since the middle of last week, according to operational data from Russia's Central Dispatching Department of the Fuel and Energy Complex (CDU TEK).

KIEV, Aug. 27 – The Ukrainian government has included the construction of a steel rolling works in Bila Tserkva by Euro-Finance Ltd., a company with foreign investments, on the list of projects that can receive state guarantees on loans under the State Economy Stimulation Program for 2013-2014.

KIEV, Aug. 23 – The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the raising of a loan worth $3.656 billion from China Development Bank to fund the replacement of natural gas by coal extracted in Ukraine, a source in the government told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 23 – The Antimonopoly Committee has allowed Metinvest, the largest mining and smelting holding of Ukraine, to acquire over 50% in Pryazovsky ore-dressing and processing enterprise (GOK, the village of Pryazovske, Zaporizhia region) and Zaporizhkoks (Zaporizhia).

MOSCOW, Aug. 23 - TNK-BP has announced plans to launch its first own liquefied petroleum gas storage station in Ukraine in October.

This pilot project will allow the company to commence liquefied petroleum gas small-scale wholesale in Ukraine. TNK-BP plans to directly supply liquefied petroleum gas to filling stations and monitor the quality of fuel.

KIEV, Aug. 27 – The total state (direct and guaranteed) debt of Ukraine in July grew by 3.6%, or $2.148 billion, to $62.174 billion due to the placement of eurobonds worth $2 billion this month, the Finance Ministry reported.

KIEV, Aug. 27 - The government has authorized the issue of 2.3 billion hryvnias, or $287 million, in state guarantees for investment projects to build a liquefied natural gas terminal near Odessa.