KIEV, Feb. 24 - The share of bad credits in the total amount of loans extended by Ukrainian banks in January fell 0.1%, to 9.3% by February 1, 2010, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – The Defense Ministry needs UAH 19.8 billion in financing for 2010, Ivan Svida, the Chief of General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, told journalists at a briefing.

"We hope we will receive the minimum that we have named – UAH 19.8 billion," Svida said.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Ukrinterenergo, the state electricity exporter and importer, in reported UAH42 million of net profit for 2008, a more-than-tenfold increase from 2007’s UAH3.983 million, the company's deputy director, Iryna Tykhonchuk, announced.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - The U.S. company Westinghouse will be able to supply its first commercial shipment of nuclear fuel to Ukrainian nuclear power plants no earlier than 2011, Natalia Shumkova, the head of the nuclear energy and industry department of the Fuel and Energy Ministry, said.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - UkrTatNafta Company, which runs the Kremenchuk oil refinery in Ukraine’s Poltava region, this year has purchased for refining about 80,000 tons of Iraqi oil of the Kirkuk brand, UPECO Consulting Company Executive Director Serhiy Kuyun announced at a press conference in Kiev.

KIEV, Feb. 21 - The share of foreign capital in the Ukrainian banking sector fell from 35% in December 2007 to 34.4% in January 2008, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 21 - Russia's EuroChem Mineral Chemical Company, one of the world's top-10 fertilizer producers, has invested $10 million in the purchase and development of trade company Agrocenter EuroChem-Ukraine, the company announced.

KIEV, Feb. 21 – The Ukrainian government may be able to cut VAT from 20% to at least 17% this year, according to Petro Poroshenko, head of the council of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – The liquidation of the Ukratomprom state concern will start after the cabinet approves a resolution on the creation of a new concern, Nuclear Fuel of Ukraine, said Natalia Shumkova, nuclear energy and industry head of the Fuel and Energy Ministry.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – A fall in the funds on the correspondent accounts of Ukrainian banks has led to a rise in the rates on the interbank credit market, say bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.