KIEV, May 27 - The share of bad credits in the total amount of loans extended by Ukrainian banks in April 2010 grew by 0.3 percentage points, to 10.3% by May 1, 2010, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, May 27 - The overall size of the Ukrainian banks' mortgage portfolios shrank by 3.48% or by UAH 3.64 billion in Q1, to UAH 101.1 billion as of April 1, the Ukrainian National Mortgage Association said in an analytical report.

KIEV, May 28 – Metal companies in Ukraine are suffering from poor sales of metal products and problems with coke and iron ore supplies, which is forcing them to cut production down and halt plants.

KIEV, May 28 – Ukraine may put off an issue of eurobonds scheduled for the end of June if the situation in the eurozone continues worsening, said Olha Bashynska, director for the Finance Ministry's state debt department.

KIEV, May 28 - The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has discovered that purchases of weapons that were subsequently sent to Georgia were illegal, Segodnya newspaper reported.

KIEV, May 28 - TNK-BP, the Russian oil company, expanded in Ukraine’s gasoline retail sector by acquiring 118 gasoline filling stations and eight oil depots throughout the country, the company reported Friday.

KIEV, May 30 ??“ Ukraine's Petrical Investment has invested UAH 70 million in the opening of the Komod trade and entertainment center at Lunacharsky Street in Kiev, Komod Board Chairman Stanislav Seliuk has told the press.

KIEV, May 30 - Slovakia is not seeking a stake in the joint venture between the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian Ore Mining and Metallurgical Company (UOMMC) that will finish building the Kryvy Rih Oxidized Ore Beneficiation Plant.

KIEV, May 30 - Odessa, the third largest city in Ukraine, plans to issue a debut Eurobond issue amounting to UAH 335 million (about $66 million) at the end of June, Hennadi Nechayivsky, head of the securities department at the Odessa City Council, said at a press conference Wednesday.
???All the Finance Ministry permissions have been received and talks are underway with interested banking structures. I would like to believe that by the end of June we will have international borrowing.

KIEV, May 30 ??“ Ukraine is to enter the foreign borrowing market by July, first deputy finance minister Vadym Kopylov said. "I think, [it will happen] before July," he told journalists Wednesday.