KIEV, June 26 – The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), which is actively expanding into neighboring markets, is in talks with shareholders in the Kiev-based Innex stock exchange on the purchase of a Ukrainian exchange.

KIEV, June 25 - RosUkrEnergo AG (Switzerland) plans to invest in the production, transportation, supply and storage of natural gas in the CIS and Eastern Europe, Group DF CEO Robert Shetler-Jones said in an interview with the Ukrainian edition of the newspaper Kommersant, published on Monday.

KIEV, June 25 - Moody's Investors Service has assigned a long-term foreign currency debt rating of Ba2 to Loan Participation Notes to be issued on a limited recourse basis by HSBC Bank plc, for the sole purpose of funding a loan to UkrSibbank, Moody's said.

KIEV, June 26 ??“ The participants of the parliamentary coalition are planning to sign and start realizing an agreement with Poland's government on extending the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Plock by 2008.

KIEV, June 26 ??“ The steering committee of the Union for the Coordination of the Transmission of Electricity (UCTE) plans to adopt technical conditions for the integration of the Ukrainian and Moldovan energy systems into the unified European electricity transmission grid.

KIEV, June 26 ??“ The Ukrainian government forecasts natural gas supplies for 2006 at 91.4 billion cubic meters, from the production of 20.5 billion cubic meters of gas in Ukraine, imports of 59.4 billion cubic meters and 11.4 billion cubic meters of gas used from underground storage facilities.

KYIV, May 24 – VF Ukraine (Vodafone Ukraine), the second-largest mobile operator in the country, will jointly with the Finnish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Nokia, test new 5G technology in Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk.

KYIV, May 24 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) intends to achieve the full capacity utilization for the extraction and processing of iron ore, as well as increase steel production from 30% at present time to 50% in the near future, CEO Mauro Longobardo has said in an interview with Forbs.ua.

KYIV, May 24 – The state-owned enterprise Artyomsol (Soledar, Donetsk region), the largest salt producer in Europe, has stopped its work for an indefinite period because of the military operations of Russian troops, acting director of the enterprise Viktor Yurin said in a commentary to Free Radio.

KYIV, May 24 – Accumulating fuel at oil depots on the territory of Ukraine until the end of hostilities is impractical due to constant rocket attacks, Viacheslav Steshenko, the co-owner of the KLO fuel filling station network, said during the talk show "Ukrainian Fuel Market: Temporary Crisis or Large-Scale Collapse?" organized by the Energy Club on Monday.