KIEV, March 30 – Ukrainian banks UAH 66.027 billion in February, 7.8 times more than January's UAH 8.504 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, March 30 – The National Bank of Ukraine has provided a new stabilization credit of UAH 800 million to the largest bank in the country – PrivatBank (Dnipropetrovsk), NBU said on its website.

VIENNA, March 30 - Billionaire financier George Soros is ready to invest $1 billion in Ukraine, if Western countries help private investment there. He also put the odds of Greece leaving the euro at a third, in an interview with Austrian newspaper Der Standard, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, March 30 - Russian gas giant Gazprom on Monday offered to extend a supply deal with Ukraine for another three months ahead of a looming deadline that had raised fears for deliveries to Europe, AFP reported.

LONDON, March 30 - International banks are waiting for the outcome of Ukraine's sovereign debt restructuring before embarking on billions of dollars of corporate financial restructuring in the war-torn region, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 29 - International oil and gas company Shell hopes Ukraine will announce an open tender to select an investor for the development of hydrocarbon reserves under a production sharing agreement (PSA) soon, noting the delay in its preparation.

LVIV, March 30 – Mass illegal dismissals have started at Lviv-based OJSC Zakhidenergo, an electricity generating company, claims Oleksandr Hudyma, an MP from the BYT faction and a member of the parliamentary committee for fuel and energy complex.

KIEV, March 29 – Ukraine is lagging behind other countries in the region due to structural weaknesses and problems with reforms, IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine Max Alier said.

KIEV, March 30 – EnergoAtom and Westinghouse have discussed prospects for cooperation after the expiration of the current contract for the supply of fuel to three reactors at Ukrainian nuclear power plants, EnergoAtom reported.

DNIPROPETROVSK, March 30 - Pavlohrad chemical plant (Dnipropetrovsk region) has finished construction of a facility for removing solid rocket propellant from SS-22 ballistic missiles, said Yevhen Ustymenko the company's technical director.