KIEV, May 25 - Ukrainian security agents on Monday seized documents at the Kiev headquarters of Italy's UniCredit bank as part of a probe aimed at cutting off the suspected illicit financing of pro-Russian rebels in the separatist east, AFP reported.

DONETSK, May 25 - Scores of armed pro-Russian separatists gathered for several hours outside the gated home of Ukraine's richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, in the eastern city of Donetsk on Sunday as Ukrainians voted for a new president, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 22 - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors on Thursday approved three new projects for Ukraine amounting to $1.48 billion that will help drive forward the essential structural and macroeconomic reforms, the World Bank said in a press release.

KIEV, May 23 - Moody's Investors Service maintains a negative outlook for Ukraine’s banking system, unchanged since 2009.

"The outlook principally reflects our expectations for a severe economic contraction in 2014, a doubling of banks’ nonperforming loans (NPLs) and a depletion of capital buffers due to credit costs," the agency stated.

KIEV, May 24 - The slowdown in economic growth in Ukraine in March-April was caused by the weakness in the world economy, so the government must focus on domestic market, a National Bank of Ukraine official said.

KIEV, May 24 – Kiev city plans to issue eurobonds worth $300 million in June 2011 and most of the funds raised will be used to pay back 2004 eurobonds worth $200 million, Head of Kiev city administration Oleksandr Popov has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 25 – Ukrainian mining and steel companies in 2011 will increase rolled steel output by 12% compared to 2010, to 31.4 million tons, steel output by 9%, to 35.5 million tons, the government forecast.

SIMFEROPOL (Crimea), May 21 – The Cabinet of Ministers will sign an amicable agreement with Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd. (the British Virgin Islands), First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev told reporters.

KIEV, May 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine will prop up the stability of the hryvnia's exchange rates, the NBU reported in a statement on its official Web site.

KIEV, May 25 – Remittances to Ukraine by Ukrainians working abroad came to 4.6% of GDP in 2009, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

"The ratio between private remittances to Ukraine's GDP in 2009 stood at 4.6%, rising by 1.2 percentage notches on the previous year, mainly thanks to the fall of GDP in dollars [by 35.7%] exceeding the fall of overall money transfers [by 13.1%]," reads the report.