KIEV, Jan. 27 - The Morozov Machine-Building Design Bureau, the executor of a contract to supply new Ukrainian BTR-4 armored personnel carriers (APCs) to Iraq has not received official claims of the Iraqi consumer to the armored vehicles made under the contract, including a batch of 40 APCs that was returned to Ukraine after an eight-month idle period the Persian Gulf, Deputy Morozov Bureau Director Yuriy Volchenko said.

KIEV, Jan. 27 - Ukraine and an ExxonMobil-led consortium plan to sign production sharing agreement on tapping a Black Sea natural gas field in February, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Monday.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Jan. 24 – UAH 280 million is needed for the complete removal and disposal of hexachlorobenzene from a toxic waste landfill in Kalush (Ivano-Frankivsk region), of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration First Deputy Chairman Vasyl Plaviuk said.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – Ukrainian chemical companies cut production of titanium dioxide by 5.3% or 8,167 tons in 2012, to 145,640 tons, the Cherkasy state research and development institute of technical and economic information reported.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – The introduction of new restrictions by the National Bank of Ukraine and the Individuals' Deposit Guarantee Fund will complicate the attraction of public funds to the banking sector, the Ukrainian Credit-Banking Union said.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Jan. 24 - Public hearings on shale gas production will take place in four districts of Ukraine's Ivano-Frankivsk region between January 30 and February 4.

DAVOS, Jan. 24 – Ukraine is planning to host a regional summit on Europe and Asia as part of the World Economic Forum in Kiev, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, Jan. 25 – Discussions between Ukrainian authorities and the International Monetary Fund on a new Stand-By Arrangement could take several months, according to Standard & Poor's international rating agency.

"The provision of new loans from the IMF depends on the implementation of key structural reforms... The discussions with the IMF could take up to several months, and the agreements signed will be difficult to implement," reads a report from S&P.

SIMFEROPOL, Jan. 25 - Zaliv shipyard (Kerch, Crimea) on Thursday launched the hulls of two ships for delivering provisions to drilling platforms being built at the same time in the dry dock of the shipyard under an order of Norwegian and Dutch companies, the Crimean Council of Ministers reported.

DAVOS, Jan. 25 – Growth of Ukraine's economy slowed down in 2012 to around 0.5% from 5.2% in 2011 and is unlikely to speed up significantly in 2013, according to MP Petro Poroshenko, former Economic Development and Trade Minister and ex-National Bank of Ukraine council chairman.