KIEV, Jan. 24 – Kernel, a large Ukrainian agrarian group, may buy an oilseed crushing plant in Ukraine with an annual capacity of around 1 million tons of sunflower seeds and expand its land bank by 200,000-250,000 ha, Kernel founder and Chairman Andriy Verevsky said.

KIEV, Jan. 25 - Ukrainian automotive corporation Bogdan announced it will present Bars-8, a new Ukrainian multipurpose armored vehicle, to potential customers in the Middle East during the 13th international defense exhibition IDEX 2017 to be held in Abu Dhabi (the UAE) on February 19-23.

KIEV, Jan. 25 - The State Property Fund intends by the end of 2017 to sell 99.967% of PJSC Odessa port-side chemical plant, 75.22% of PJSC Turboatom, 68.0095% in PJSC Zaporizhia Aluminium Combine (ZAlK), as well as state-owned stakes in Zaporizhia Titanium and Magnesium Combine (51%) and PJSC Azovmash (50%).

KIEV, Jan. 25 – Ukrainian businessmen Victor Pinchuk and Ihor Kolomoisky have reached a $2 billion dispute settlement out of court, The Telegraph reported.

MOSCOW, Jan. 26 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee is blocking the sale of the Lukoil-Ukraine company by Russia's LUKOIL, citing SBU security service charges that LUKOIL, through Lukoil-Ukraine, financed terrorists and was involved in money laundering.

KIEV, Jan. 26 - Ukraine’s daily imports of European natural gas via Hungary increased by 38% to 3.7 million cubic meters on January 24, compared with about 2.7 million cu m earlier in January, UkrTransGaz, the state gas shipper, reported Monday.

KIEV, Jan. 23 – Ukrenergo announced it has signed contracts with CJSC Soyuz-Grid (Russia) and Dalekovod d.d. Zagreb (Croatia) worth EUR125.4 million within the project for building the 750 kV Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant-Kakhovska power grid.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – GlobalMoney company (Kiev) is operating as normal, despite a search conducted by the tax agencies, the company reported.

DNIPROPETROVSK, Jan. 26 – The issue of providing EUR 152 million to Dnipropetrovsk city council for subway construction is pending approval by the Board of Directors of the European Investment Bank in April, and in May the financing will go to the borrower, EIB representative Boris Stein von Kamiensk said at a meeting in the city council devoted to the completion of the construction of three subway stations in the city.

KIEV, Jan. 24 - The Australian company Lugansk Gold plans to put some $50 million into the mining and refining of gold sulfide ores at the Bobrikovo deposit in Ukraine's Luhansk region, and has already spent roughly $2 million, the Perth-based company's Web site says, citing head of the Antratsyt regional administration Hennadiy Holovnenko.