KIEV, Jan. 23 – The funds of AeroSvit Airline on all accounts at Ukrainian banks were arrested on January 22 under a resolution of the State Law-Enforcement Service of the Chief Justice Department in Kiev region, which was issued in violation of Ukrainian law, the carrier reported.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – Ukraine’s national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny will soon be split into several companies as part of reform in the energy sector, President Viktor Yanukovych said Thursday.

KIEV, Jan. 23 - Gasoline sales at Ukrainian fuel filling stations in December 2011 fell by 9.4% compared to December 2010, to 267,000 tons, the State Statistics Service has reported.

KIEV, Jan. 23 – The growth of gross domestic product in Ukraine slowed to 4.2% in Q4 from 6.6% in the third quarter of 2011, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – The State Tax Service is planning to settle all disputable issues on value added tax refunding to foreign investors in 2012, State Tax Service head Oleksandr Klymenko said at a meeting with companies belonging to the European Business Association.

KIEV, Jan. 24 - Gazprom International and Naftogaz Ukrayiny struck an agreement on January 18 to ramp up their mutual efforts in setting up a joint venture for opening the Pallas structure on the shelf of the Black Sea, a statement issued by the Russian company says.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – France's Vicat could built a cement plan with the production capacity of 1-1.3 million tons of cement per year in Vinnytsia region, and its preliminary cost could be some $200 million, Vinnytsia's regional administration head, Mykola Dzhyha, said after talks with investors.

KIEV, Jan. 21 – The Antimonopoly Committee plans on January 24-January 30 to decide what action it will take over the price hikes for A-95 and A-92 gasoline seen at the end of 2010 and first days of 2011.

BERLIN, Jan. 24 – Germany has criticized Russia and Ukraine for grain export restrictions, while the two countries explain their measures by the extraordinary situation on the grain market due to heavy drought in 2010 and criticizes the European Union for hindering grain supplies from the CIS states.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – Kiev city has selected the winner of a tender to select an organizer of a eurobond issue worth at least $200 million in 2011, a source on the market has told Interfax-Ukraine.