KIEV, Sept. 19 - Ukrainian coal producer Sadovaya Group has defaulted on a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development loan.

KIEV, Sept. 20 - Boryspil International Airport with the start of the winter season of 2013/14, on October 27, will again service passengers of international flights at terminal B, Serhiy Hombolevsky, the deputy director general for exploitation of the airport, told reporters.

KHARKIV, Sept. 20 – Kharkiv District Administrative Court has rejected a claim of a lawmaker of Kharkiv Regional Council, Ivan Varchenko (the Batkivschyna faction), who demands that the council's approval of a draft production sharing agreement between Ukraine and Shell, Nadra Yuzivska on the Yuzivska shale gas field be ruled null and void.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – The stability of the hryvnia is based on low inflation, improvements in the balance of payments and the revival of the economy, and it could be supported by the resumption of financial cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, said Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank governor.

KIEV, Sept. 20 - Moody's Investors Service cut Ukraine's sovereign credit rating further into junk category on Friday and warned that more downgrades could come.

Moody's cut the rating by one notch to Caa1 from B3, with the outlook placed on review for downgrade, as it cited concerns over a drop in foreign currency reserves, new debt issuance and potentially worsening relations with Russia.

KIEV, Sept. 20 - Ukraine's government moved closer to a new shale gas deal for the country when a regional council approved its draft for a production sharing agreement with U.S. energy company Chevron on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Credit and deposit rates in Ukraine could grow along with the retaining of a lack of liquidity in the banking sector and the possible acceleration of inflation, according to experts Forum for Leading International Financial Institutions (FLIFI).

KIEV, Sept. 21 - Ukrainian agroindustrial group Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) is planning to implement an energy program worth over $130 million, program manager Oleksandr Dombrovsky told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – DTEK is planning to take part in the privatization of electricity generating companies Zakhidenergo, Dniproenergo, Kyivenergo and Donetskoblenergo, DTEK Director General Maksym Tymchenko said.

BAKU, Sept. 21 - Azerbaijani State Oil Company (SOCAR) considers joint implementation of deliveries of liquefied natural gas to Romania and Ukraine a possibility, SOCAR vice-president Elshad Nasirov told journalists on Wednesday.