KIEV, March 21 - ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) saw UAH 2.892 million in net losses in 2012, while in 2011 its net profit stood at UAH 2.143 billion, reads a company report on the holding of a general meeting of its shareholders scheduled for April 25.

KIEV, March 22 - Ukraine's gross foreign debt increased 2%, or by $2.6 billion, to $135.05 billion, in the last quarter of last year, the National Bank of Ukraine says.

KIEV, March 22 – It is unlikely that the World Trade Organization and European Union will respond with sanctions to the introduction of special duties on imports of cars with 1-2.2 liter engines by Ukraine, will introduce sanctions, according to Nick Reilly, former head of General Motors Europe.

KIEV, March 22 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says he was surprised that the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union, the Communist Party and Batkivschyna joined forces to fight the government's bill on the development of shale gas in Ukraine.

MOSCOW, March 24 - The dispute between Russian and Ukraine over the PrikarpatZapadtrans pipeline system, part of the Transnefteprodukt system, is threatening to bring the transit of oil products to Europe to a halt.

KIEV, March 24 - Ukraine will issue state debt to raise 8.5 billion hryvnias that will be channeled to the capital of national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, according to a government statement posted on Thursday.

KIEV, March 22 – The State Food-Grain Corporation of Ukraine plans to form a land bank of one million hectares, Khlib Investbud Director General Robert Brovdi said in an interview with the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper on Tuesday.

KHARKIV, March 22 – An ambulance plane formerly intended for delivery to Libya is almost finished and Kharkiv Regional State Administration is looking for a buyer for it.

KIEV, March 22 - Fitch Ratings has assigned PJSC VTB Bank (Ukraine)'s (VTBU) series C UAH 300 million senior unsecured bonds a final Long-term local currency rating of 'B+', a Recovery Rating of 'RR4' and a National Long-term rating of 'AAA(ukr)', a report by the agency said.

KIEV, March 23 – Ukraine’s State Property Fund and Russia's Bryansk engineering plant managing company, part of Russia's Transmashholding, have signed an agreement on the cross-cancellation of counter claims regarding Luhanskteplovoz.