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.

KIEV, June 21 - The World Bank has improved its growth forecast for Ukraine' gross domestic product for this year from 4% to 4.5%, Ruslan Piontkovsky, senior economist at the bank's representative office in Kiev, said on Tuesday.

KIEV, June 21 – Ukraine and China have signed a commercial contract on reconstruction of the Oriana potassium plant in Kalush (Ivano-Frankivsk region), which has been idle since 2002, First Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Development and Trade Minister Andriy Kliuyev reported.

KIEV, June 18 – Laboratory quality tests of fuel at Ukrainian filling stations have not been conducted since the start of 2009 due to a lack of financing, the state committee for technical regulation and consumer policy of Ukraine has told Interfax-Ukraine.

ODESSA, June 18 – Odessa’s Eksimnaftoprodukt plans to transship about three million tons of oil for further transit to the Mozyr Oil Refinery (Belarus) in 2010, the company's Deputy Commercial Director Oleksandr Kozlov said.