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.

KIEV, April 22 – The new Antares medium-class space rocket, built for delivering cargo to the International Space Station by U.S. Orbital Science Corp as a part of international cooperation with the participation of Ukraine, made its first launch from a commercial spaceport in the U.S. on Sunday.

KIEV, April 22 – Ukraine has decided to exempt hybrid cars with engines from 1,000 to 2,200 cubic centimeters from a special duty on imports of new passenger cars to Ukraine irrespective of their origin, the duty having been collected since April 13, 2013, and in effect until February 28, 2014, reads, 2013.

KIEV, April 22 – Stirol Concern (Horlivka, Donetsk region), part of Dmytro Firtash's Ostchem Holding, plans to produce 1.468 million tons of ammonia and 955,000 tons of urea in 2013.