KIEV, Feb. 25 – State-run Skhidny mining and beneficiation mill (Zhovti Vody, Dnipropetrovsk region) plans to take banking credits in 2011 to develop uranium production, reads a report of the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry on the fulfilled plans for 2010.

KIEV, Feb. 28 – The acceleration of the economic growth in Ukraine in January 2011 resulted in a surplus of the country's balance of payments and current account early in the first quarter of 2011, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 28 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has assessed Ukraine's economic growth with careful optimism, EBRD Vice President Jan Fischer said at a meeting of the fifth Europe-Ukraine forum.

KIEV, Feb. 28 - Ukraine has agreed to purchase an extra 1 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russian gas giant Gazprom to compensate for unusually cold weather in February, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry reported Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 25 – The deficit of Ukraine's balance of payments in January was $1.057 billion, 41.3% down from January 2009, when the deficit was estimated at $1.801 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported, citing preliminary estimates.

BAKU/KIEV, Feb. 26 – The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (Socar) plans by the end of Q1 to start retail sales of fuel under the Socar brand in Ukraine, the company's president, Rovnag Abdullayev, told the press on Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 26 – Ukraine in January boosted electricity exports by 74.9% or 237.3 million kWh year-over-year, to 554.1 million kWh, the Fuel and Energy Ministry announced.

KIEV, Feb. 28 ??“ Ukrsotsbank, Ukraine??™s No. 6 bank by assets, plans to attract around $2 billion on the foreign markets in 2007, Ukrsotsbank Board Chairman Borys Timonkin said.

"This year, foreign borrowing will be carried out through two issues of eurobonds, at least two syndicated credits and in other forms of borrowing," he said.

KIEV, Feb. 27 ??“ Industrial Union of Donbas, helped by Calyon Bank, will get a $50 million syndicated loan, under a $150 million credit line from the European bank for Reconstruction and Development, a news agency reported.

KIEV, Feb. 28 - AeroSvit, Ukraine's largest airline, and Donbasaero, the third biggest airline, announced on Tuesday that a strategic alliance named the Ukrainian Aviation Group has been created.