KIEV, June 19 – The National Bank of Ukraine has improved the assessment of Ukraine's gross foreign debt for January-March 2009 to $99.159 billion from $101 billion, the NBU said on its official Web site.

KIEV, June 19 – The National Energy Company of Ukraine, which manages several large thermal power plants, is to initiate their privatization, the president of the National Joint-Stock Company Energy Company of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zinevych, said in an interview with Delo newspaper.

KIEV, June 19 – Revenues to the Ukrainian budget from the sale of state stakes in four electricity-generating companies that exploits heat power plants--Dniproenergo, Donbasenergo, Zakhidenergo and Tsentrenergo--$1-1.5 billion, according to Volodymyr Zinevych, president of the National Energy Company of Ukraine.

KIEV, June 20 - Crimean Soda Plant in Krasnoperekopsk, part of OstChem Holding, which is under control of Dmytro Firtash, has completed the first stage of the plant's upgrade worth EUR3 million, by replacing two out of four filters at the plant.

KIEV, June 20 - Ukrainian communication operators increased income from services by 21.4% in January to May year-on-year, to UAH18.324 billion, the State Statistics Committee reported.

KIEV, June 20 – The Association of International Haulers of Ukraine (AsMAP) plans on July 8 to hold a strike against the decision of Kiev City state administration to restrict the entry of trucks to Kiev and the non-fulfillment of AsMAP requirements by the central executive power bodies.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, June 20 - Italy's Antonio Merloni is interested in producing parts for the Ardo washing machines assembled by Ivano-Frankivsk Ukrainian Household Appliances Ltd., a company with 100% foreign capital.

KIEV, June 20 - Ukraine's biggest poultry producer, Mironovskiy HleboProduct, or MHP, posted a fivefold rise in first-quarter net profit and said on Friday revenue soared thanks to production growth and higher selling prices, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 20 – The difference between the official and market hryvnia exchange rate is not to exceed 1%, according to Oleksandr Savchenko, deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, June 21 ??“ A Russian-Ukrainian consortium defeated Mittal Steel, the world??™s largest steel maker, by winning a preliminary tender to invest in an unfinished Ukrainian iron ore producer whose reserves are enough for 200 years.