DAVOS, Jan 24 – Horizon Capital, a U.S. private-equity firm investing in high growth and export-driven companies in Ukraine, has announced the final closing of its third fund, $200 million Emerging Europe Growth Fund III LP.

KIEV, Jan. 23 – The Ukrainian Sea Port Authority promised to carry out dredging works in the project to build a grain terminal by Cargill and the authority will implement them in full amount and in accordance with the project terms.

KIEV, Jan. 23 – Testing of a sample shipment of Ukrainian armored personnel carriers (APC) '4M,' which were produced at the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau for the Indonesian marines in line with a contract from February 2104 between the state-owned SpetsTechnoExport concern and Indonesia's Defense Ministry, have ended successfully.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – The Economic Development and Trade Ministry of has reported on the fourth round of talks with Israel about signing of the free trade area (FTA) agreement with the country.

KIEV, Jan. 24 - Representatives of the Japanese shipping company NYK Line have visited Chornomorsk seaport, and the practical result of the meeting might become the first NYK Line vessel entry to the port in the first quarter of 2017.

KIEV, Jan. 24 - Several hundred million dollars of the family of President of Dynamo Football Club (Kiev) Ihor Surkis have been written off in the process of nationalization of PrivatBank, according to a report from VoxUkraine, with reference to former co-owner of the bank Hennadiy Boholiubov.

KIEV, Jan. 22 – Data from the State Statistics Service on the operation of key sectors in December 2012 shows the Ukrainian economy finished 2012 with a small rise of around several tenths of percentage point, although it has all chances of accelerating growth in 2013 to figures close to the budget reference point of 3.4%, according to the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank governor, Valeriy Lytvytsky.

KIEV, Jan. 22 – The 2013-2014 economic stimulus plan that is being drawn up by the government envisages the creation of a State Bank for Development in 2013, First Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov said.

KIEV, Jan. 22 – AeroSvit Airline employees already have high salaries and their unions are not bargaining in good faith, the airline said Tuesday.

"Over the period the administration has several times drawn the attention of trade union leaders to the fact that the average wage of representatives of some aviation professions at AeroSvit is the highest not only in the sector, but in the country as a whole," the airline said.

KIEV, Jan. 22 – Several Ukrainian companies are ready to tackle an initial public offering on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2013 but waiting for the situation on the stock market to improve, according to WSE spokesman Blazej Karwowski.