KIEV, March 30 – Ukraine’s international cooperation in the sphere of nuclear security will allow the country to develop its own nuclear technologies, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Kliuyev said while commenting on Ukraine's removal of highly enriched uranium.

KIEV, April 1 – Natural gas transit to the Balkan states is continuing, but the volume of gas has dropped because of a trunk gas pipeline explosion in Transdniestria, national gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy's spokesman Valentyn Zemliansky told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 1 – The State Property Fund on Tuesday started scheduled checks of the fulfillment of conditions of a purchase and sales agreement for a stake in Zaporizhia Aluminum Combine (ZAlK), the country's only aluminum smelter.

KIEV, April 2 - The Ukrainian weekly Fokus estimates the aggregate wealth of the 150 richest Ukrainians at $33.3 billion, with businessman Rinat Akhmetov at the top of the list with $3.7 billion.

KIEV, April 2 - Denmark's Trigon Agri announced it is finalizing a deal on the acquisition of Novomyrhorodsky Elevator in Kirovohrad region and Yavkinsky Elevator in Mykolaiv region from Kiev-based Ramburs Group.

KIEV, April 2 – Ukrainian Danube Navigation (Izmail) doubled its tariffs for iron ore transportation as of April 1.

"According to the calculations of Ukrainian Danube Navigation's specialists, the grounds for changing the tariffs include increases in the price of fuel, port duties, the price of ship steel and the strengthening of requirements of new European Union members on non-member countries," the company said on Tuesday.

ZAPORIZHIA, April 2 - Ukrainian Automobile Corporation (UkrAvto), Ukraine's large passenger car producer, forecasts job cuts at its companies after the agreement on the country's joining the World Trade Organization is ratified, its deputy chairman, Oleh Papashev, said at a press conference in Zaporizhia.

KIEV, April 2 – The sales of the state stockholdings in six regional energy-supplying companies (oblenergos) will be held from May 14 until May 29 at the State Property Fund and will be organized by six Kiev stock exchanges, according to a Wednesday announcement in the Vidomosti of Privatization newspaper.

KIEV, April 2 – Up to 85% of mortgage credits in Ukraine are issued in U.S. dollars, while the share of credits in the national currency is no more than 10-15% in the total mortgage portfolios of banks.

KIEV, April 2 ??“ Ukrainian Trade Guild, a real estate consultancy, signed a deal with Moldova's IM City Development SRL joint venture to draft a marketing concept for two housing complexes in Chisinau.