KIEV, March 23 – Imports and exports of agricultural machinery in Ukraine jumped 2.3-fold in January and February 2011 compared to the same period in 2010, according to the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club.

DNIPROPETROVSK, March 22 – Investment in Dnipropetrovsk region in 2011 could reach $1 billion, and most of the funds would be spent on industry, according to Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration.

KIEV, March 23 – The imposition of a fine for anti-competitive actions on the retail petroleum product market in late 2010 and early 2011 on the OKKO filling station chain by the Antimonopoly Committee has no grounds, the chain has claimed.

KIEV, March 23 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has promised to send UAH 150 million to Mariupol Illich Steel Mill for VAT that is to be reimbursed by tax bodies for exported products, the mill's director general andchairman, Volodymyr Boiko said.

KIEV, March 23 – Ukraine and Kazakhstan will hold a summit later this year in order to improve economic relations as Kiev seeks to win back lost Kazakh crude oil transit supplies to Europe.

KIEV, March 20 – AeroSvit-Ukrainian Airlines has cancelled its plans to invest in the construction of the E terminal at the Boryspil state International airport, AeroSvit's deputy director general for strategic development, Yevhen Treskunov, said.

KIEV, March 23 – The sale of the ANP filling station, which belongs to shareholders in Kiev-based Ukrprombank, would have allowed them to do without the state intervening in the bank's additional capitalization, according to the provisionary administrator in the bank, Oleksandr Maidaniuk.

KIEV, March 23 – The State Property Fund is to put up for sale blocking stakes in five regional electricity supply companies in late April to early May, according to the Vidomosti Pryvatyzatsii edition.

KIEV, March 20 – The temporary administrator of Kiev-based Nadra Bank, Valentyna Zhukovska, has asked the National Bank of Ukraine to capitalize the bank using state funds.

"On March 18, the bank's temporary administrator Zhukovska used the exclusive right of the temporary administrator to ask the NBU to capitalize the bank using state funds without holding a general meeting of the bank's shareholders.

KIEV, March 23 – Experts from Kiev-based A-95 Consulting Group forecast that retail prices for fuel in Ukraine in late March will fall due to the favorable situation on the wholesale market and the growing strengthening of light fuel consumption, according to a company press release.