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.

KIEV, March 20 – Ukraine's Transport and Communications Ministry has forecast that the construction of a large ring road around Kiev will be completed in 2017.

KIEV, March 20 – Ukraine International Airlines plans in 2009-2010 to expand its fleet by four airplanes, UIA President Yuriy Miroshnikov said.

He said that in 2009, the company was planning to receive two Boeing 737-800 planes and in 2010 two more Boeing 737-800 planes.

KIEV, March 21 - Kharkiv Roller Bearing Plant, part of the UPEK Group, in Q3 plans to launch a new railway bearing production line made by China's Wuxi Kaiyuan Group, UPEK reported.