KIEV, June 19 – The State Property Fund has ensured that public joint-stock company Zaporizhia aluminum plant (ZAlK) is guarded by the Interior Ministry's structures regarding the return of a controlling stake in the plant to state ownership, the fund told Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday, referring to SPF head Ihor Bilous before a meeting of the parliamentary ad hoc commission for privatization.

MOSCOW/KIEV, June 19 - Masked people searched an office of Prominvestbank, the Ukrainian subsidiary of Russia's Vnesheconombank, or VEB, on Thursday, seizing files and hard drives, VEB chief Vladimir Dmitriyev said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 television on Friday.

LVIV, June 19 – The maintenance of the Arena Lviv stadium will cost about UAH 20 million per year, the stadium's operations director, Oleksiy Zhukovin, said.

KIEV, June 20 – Ukraine's monetary base in May grew by 0.1%, to UAH 237 billion, although since the start of the year it had decreased by 1.2%, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, June 20 – Vestas Wind Systems AS (Denmark) has supplied the first wind turbines for the Botiyevska station in the DTEK Pryazovsky wind farm (Zaporizhia region).

KIEV, June 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine, effective June 30, is to toughen the requirements for the obligatory reservation of deposits in foreign currency by 1-1.5 percentage notches - in particular, for short-term accounts and deposits of companies and individuals from 8% to 9% and for long-term deposits – from 2% to 3%.

KIEV, June 21 – The European Business Association has asked President Viktor Yanukovych to veto law No. 9661 on the improvement of some tax requirements and return it for elaboration by experts and the business community with regard to settling the problem of carrying forward losses for previous periods.

KIEV, June 20 - Ukraine's Ambassador to the EU Kostiantyn Yeliseyev has sent a letter to the European Commission stating his displeasure with the situation regarding the issuing of visas to Ukrainians.

KIEV, June 20 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry and Sinohydro Corporation Ltd (China) on June 8 signed a memorandum on cooperation in the construction of hydropower plants in Ukraine, the ministry said on Monday.

KIEV, June 20 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is providing a EUR 85 million loan to Air Liquide Ukraine LLC (ALU) to finance the development, construction and operation of a new Air Separation Unit (ASU) at Yenakiyeve Iron and Steel Works (EMZ) in south-eastern Ukraine, the Kiev office of the bank reported on Monday.