KIEV. April 21 – Ukraine's Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry has said that farmers paid UAH 2 billion in advance to chemical enterprises under control of Dmytro Firtash's Ostchem Group, which has largely been shut down by the eastern conflict, for 300,000 tons of fertilizer.

KIEV, April 21 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development intends to buy a stake in state-owned Oschadbank in the amount of 10-25% depending on the price, and sell it in three or five years at one of the Ukrainian exchanges, EBRD Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus Francis Malige has said.

KIEV, April 21 – Changes to the Agreement concerning the Relationships between Carriers in respect of International Freight Traffic by Rail (SMGS) and freight traffic manuals on this agreement will take effect on July 1, making it possible out international transportation within one state by several carriers or one carrier using infrastructure of several states.

KIEV, April 21 – Ukraine's plans to save $5.37 billion due to the restructuring of sovereign and government-backed debts in 2015 by deferring principal payments due this year, Ukreximbank announced on its website.

HOUSTON, April 23 – Ukraine is looking for an international operator for a project to produce gas in the country, Energy and Coal Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said at the IHS CERAWeek conference in Houston.

KIEV, April 22 – PrivatBank (Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine's largest bank, says that Russia's he Central Bank is preparing for the illegal seizure of its Crimean infrastructure.

SIMFEROPOL, April 22 - Crimean farmers will be unable to grow rice, corn and soybeans if the Ukrainian authorities refuse to resume water supplies from the Dnipro River along the North Crimean canal, Crimea's Minister for Agrarian and Food Policy Nikolai Polyushkin said.

KIEV, April 23 – Ukrainian poultry breeders will start exporting egg products to the European Union market in May, Union of Ukrainian Poultry Breeders Chairman Oleksandr Bakumenko said.

KIEV, April 23 – The interagency commission for international trade has decided to close an antidumping investigation into imports of suspension polyvinylchloride production (PVC-S) to Ukraine from the United States (foreign trade code 3904 10 00 00) without taking protective measures, reads a report in the Uriadovy Kurier newspaper.

KIEV, April 22 – The projects for the production of BTR-4 armed personnel carriers under the order of Iraq and BTR-3E1 armed personnel carriers for the Thai Army, as well as the modernization of An-32 light transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force, according to the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies, have become the best export projects of Ukraine's defense industry in recent years.