KIEV, March 27 - Ukraine will next week start talks with Romania and Slovakia over privatization of major Ukrainian iron ore deposit in which the two countries have minority stakes, a government source said Thursday.

KIEV, March 27 - Ukraine’s 10 major oil and gasoline importers have agreed to provide comprehensive comparative price statistics to the State Customs Committee in order to prevent any sudden gasoline price swings on the domestic market.

KIEV, March 25 – Odessa’s Monomakh Insurance Company plans to meet all of its insurance commitments for the Ukrainian tugboat Naftogaz-67 which sank near Lantau Island in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the company said on Tuesday.

KIEV, March 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine and State Tax Administration should intervene when banks provide services at a price lower than cost, according to Dnipropetrovsk-based PrivatBank Chairman Oleksandr Dubilet.

KIEV, March 26 –The excess of foreign currency supply over demand on the Ukrainian interbank market over the past several days was a blip, and the balance on the interbank is being restored, according to Anatoliy Shapovalov, first deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine.

ZAPORIZHIA, March 27 - The Zaporizhia Aluminum Smelter (ZALK), Ukraine's only producer of primary aluminum, expects to close 2008 with a loss of UAH143 million, General Director Alexander Kotiuk said.

KIEV, March 27 ??“ Milkiland-Ukraine, one of Ukraine's major dairy producers, is to complete talks on purchasing milk processing facilities in Ukraine.

KIEV, March 27 - Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Russia's Alliance Group plan to form a joint venture to run the Russian company's filling station network in Ukraine, an industry source said.

KIEV, March 27 ??“ French banking group Credit Agricole S.A., which has been working for 13 years on the Ukrainian market through Calyon Bank, has agreed to buy 98% of Index-Bank for about $260 million, a news agency reported.

KIEV, March 27 ??“ Seven foreign oil companies, such as ExxonMobil, Shell and Hunt Oil Company, submitted their bids at a tender to for exploration and extraction of oil and gas offshore Black Sea, officials said.