KIEV, Sept. 23 - Skhidny Mining state enterprise (Zhovti Vody, Dnipropetrovsk region) plans to boost uranium concentrate production by 29.6% in 2015, to 1,200 tons, Director General Oleksandr Sorokin told reporters in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The World Bank expects that the Ukrainian banking system will consolidate to 100 banks in 2016, according to its report on the Second Programmatic Financial Sector Development Policy Loan for Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Ukroboronprom State Concern and U.S. Textron Systems are working on a cooperation program to modernize U.S. HMMWVs for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has transferred Ukraine to the first category from the second one according to safety criteria under the International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA), the State Aviation Service reported.

RIVNE, Sept. 20 – Prices for chemical fertilizers on the world market have grown to a level that allows Ukrainian nitrogen enterprises to operate at a profit, businessman Dmytro Firtash has told reporters at a meeting of the Union of Chemists of Ukraine in Rivne.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – The National Bank of Ukraine has increased the reserve asset ratio for long-term assets and bank deposits by legal entities and individuals in foreign currency from 5% to 7%, the NBU said in a statement.

This is stipulated in NBU resolution No. 371 dated September 19 on monetary market regulations.

YALTA, Sept. 23 – It is expensive for Ukraine to maintain the capacity of the Ukrainian gas transport system at 150 billion cubic meters per year amid a significant reduction in gas transit, therefore, without the support of Russia and the EU Kiev can resort to partial conversion of the system, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara has reiterated that Ukraine did supply weapons to Syria.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Kiev is planning soon to sign a contract for the modernization of 96 subway cars for a total of UAH 960 million using funds Ukraine received under the Kyoto Protocol, said Oleksandr Popov, head of Kiev City State Administration.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – Stock market participants have asked President Viktor Yanukovych to veto a law on the depository system of Ukraine passed on July 6 by Parliament, and return it to Parliament with a proposal to exclude requirements that hinder the development of the financial market and violate the rights of market players.