KYIV, March 26 – Ukraine will create an agency of advanced technologies to implement new technologies in the defense industry, Ukroboronprom state concern director Pavlo Bukin said.

The agency, which will be modeled on DARPA of the U.S., will be created at at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, or KPI.

KYIV, March 26 – The state-owned enterprise Boryspil International Airport is ready to allow Ireland's low cost airline Ryanair to use currently mothballed Terminal F as soon as the airline starts servicing 15 flights a day from the airport.

KIEV, March 23 - The National Bank of Ukraine has asked law enforcement agencies to respond to the continued blocking of work of Ukrainian banks with Russian state capital, carried out by "aggressively-minded groups of people," as this reduces confidence in the Ukrainian banking system and jeopardizes its stability, NBU Deputy head Yekateryna Rozhkova said.

KIEV, March 23 – Ukraine's Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry has reported that Export-Import Bank of China is ready to cut the credit rate for the bilateral grain project of State Food-Grain Corporation and China's CCEC.

KIEV. March 24 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has expressed concern about the fact that former owners of Interleaseinvest that earlier had a fleet of 2,400 freight wagons, which the bank later took away under the collateral agreement in court, are fighting for control over the company and the fleet.

KIEV, March 24 – The National Commission for Communications and Informatization Regulation (NCCR) and mobile operations have agreed on frequency refarming of 1,800 MHz range, Commission Head Oleksandr Zhyvotovsky has said.

KIEV, March 24 – TechNova LLC, managing Darnytsia, Chernihiv, Cherkasy and Sumy combined heat and power plants (CHPPs) have contracted the delivery of 225,000 tons of anthracite from South Africa at the price of $96.60 per ton (taking into account delivery and reloading).

KIEV, March 24 - Ukraine is in talks with a major European energy company over management of its vast natural gas transportation system that moves Russian gas to Europe, according to Andriy Kobolev, the head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, March 24 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is allocating EUR 65 million to the Ukrainian national transmission network operator, Ukrenergo, to enhance its power supply reliability in Kiev.

KIEV, March 25 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny is to call an open tender to hire top Ukrnafta managers, Naftogaz Executive Director Andriy Pasishnyk said.

"After the signing of law No. 2273 (endorsing the reduction of the quorum for holding shareholders' meetings from 60% to 50% plus one share), we'll call an open tender to hire Ukrnafta's top management and the selection process will take place in the presence of journalists and lawmakers," he wrote on Facebook on Tuesday evening.