KIEV, Feb. 28 – A well-connected Ukrainian gasoline trader, which was recently reported to be acquiring Lukoil Odessa oil refinery, announced Thursday it has created a new entity to incorporate all its energy assets.

KIEV, Feb. 27 – The state (direct) debt of Ukraine in 2013 will rise to 30.6% of GDP from 28.5% of GDP in 2012, according to the program of the state debt management for 2013, approved by order No. 277 of the Finance Ministry dated February 21.

KIEV, Feb. 27 – U.S. AES Corporation has sold its 89.1% stake in power supply company PJSC AES Kyivoblenergo and an 84.6% stake in AES Rivneoblenergo to VS Energy International for $113 million, according to a posting on the Web site of AES Corporation.

KIEV, Feb. 28 – Ukraine will send to Thailand another batch of BTR-3E1 armored personnel carriers assembled by domestic defense industry enterprises under contracts concluded in recent years.

KIEV, Feb. 29 - Ukraine's biggest power and coal mining company DTEK on Wednesday signed two agreements with UniCredit Group allowing the company to borrow $260 million during the next three years, DTEK reported.

KIEV, Feb. 29 - Ukraine's biggest producer of natural gas, UkrGazVydobuvannia, or UGV, urged the government to lower ‘tax pressure’ in order to allow the company to increase domestic gas output.

SEVASTOPOL, Feb. 27 – Two cruise terminals are to be created in Sevastopol and Yalta ports to increase their passenger-handling capacity by several times, Sevastopol Maritime Merchant Port Director Serhiy Tarakanov told reporters.

KIEV, Feb. 28 - Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny will soon receive a charter capital injection of UAH 6 billion by way of what has become a traditional practice over the past few years - the government paying for shares through a new 10-year government domestic loan bond issue.

KIEV, Feb. 29 – DTEK, Ukraine's largest private vertically integrated energy holding plans to conduct an initial public offering for Kyivenergo, head Ivan Plachkov of DTEK's supervisory board told journalists in Kiev.

KIEV, Feb. 29 - Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd is planning to invest up to $400 million in exploring the Prykerchenska oil and gas block of Ukrainian Black Sea shelf over three years, Vanco Prykerchenska President Jim Bown told reporters in Kiev on Wednesday.