KYIV, March 23 – Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) has announced the placement of eight-year $550 million loan participation notes at 6.95% per annum.

KYIV, March 23 – Danish BankeElectromotive and Lutsk Automobile Plant No. 1 of Bogdan Motors have signed contract for engineering and production of trucks for collecting waste by municipalities of cities and towns all over the European Union.

KYIV, March 23 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) initiates the update of the package program on development of the country's financial sector until 2020 and announced the creation of a working group to update the document.

KIEV, March 23 – DTEK wants to swap $200 million eurobonds due in April 2015 for new ones due in April 2019 with a simultaneous increase in coupon rate from 9.5% to 10.375%.

KIEV, March 25 - The Ukrainian government is in talks with several potential investors from China to raise funds for the construction, energy, agriculture and infrastructure sectors.

KIEV, March 25 – Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Ukraine's long-term issuer and government debt ratings to Ca from Caa3.

The outlook remains negative, Moody's said in a statement.

"The key driver of the downgrade is the likelihood of external private creditors incurring substantial losses as a result of the government's plan to restructure the majority of its outstanding eurobonds.

KIEV, March 24 – The National Bank of Ukraine suspects about 10 banks of being involved in illegal conversion activities related to tax evasion, NBU chief Stepan Kubiv said.

KIEV, March 22 - Ukraine and the United States are preparing to open this May a plant for the disposal of solid rocket fuel and empty engine casings of intercontinental ballistic missiles at the Pavlohrad Chemical Plant (Dnipropetrovsk region), which is one of the key facilities under the program for the disposal of solid rocket fuel of the SS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles.

KIEV, March 22 – International donors have already provided EUR 18 million for the implementation of a project for Ukraine's disposal of its stocks of melange, a toxic rocket fuel component, the Foreign Ministry said.

KIEV, March 22 - Ukraine is planning to spend UAH 728.271 million in 2013 on the decommissioning the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the transformation of its Shelter facility into an environmentally safe system.