KIEV, April 21 – Saudi Arabia will donate $20 million towards the international effort to seal Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, increasing the total size of the fund to $810 million, the Ukrainian foreign ministry reported.

YALTA, April 19 – The use of the national currencies of the CIS states in trade is becoming a more urgent issue, but progress in this direction is restrained by several factors, Deputy National Bank of Ukraine Governor Ihor Sorkin said.

KIEV, April 21 – Mohammad Zahoor, the owner of the Kyiv Post, a Ukrainian English-language newspaper, wants to sell the newspaper for $2.4 million as it is not profitable, Kommersant Ukraine reported on Thursday.

KIEV, April 21 – UAH 7 billion will be invested in the development of alternative energy this year, according to Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko.

KIEV, April 20 – The losses of Antonov Airlines due to the closure of air space in almost 20 countries in Europe due to volcano eruption in Iceland last week amount to several million dollars, Antonov Airlines CEO Kostiantyn Lushakov told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 20 – Ukrainian travel agencies have expressed doubts that compensation will be paid to tourists who had to prolong their trips abroad due to the cancellation of flights due to volcanic ash.

MOSCOW, April 20 – Ukraine is ready to consider the possible joint construction of a grain terminal on the coast of the Black Sea, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykhailo Prysiazhniuk told the press on Monday in Moscow after a meeting of the sub-commission for agriculture of the committee for economic cooperation of the Russian-Ukrainian interstate commission.

KIEV, April 21 – The portfolio of orders for new regional An-148/158/168 planes until 2025 is estimated at 130 aircraft, the director general of OJSC Ilyushin Finance Co. (IFC, Russia), Alexander Rubtsov, told Interfax-Ukraine in Kiev.

KIEV, April 17 – Ukrainian eurobonds kept growing over the past week amid optimistic sentiments on international markets and amid positive news from an International Monetary Fund mission currently working in Kiev.

KIEV, April 20 – Ukraine is capable of harvesting about 40 million tons of grain this year against 53.3 million in 2008, agriculture analysts say.

"We believe that the yield of grain this year will be about 40 million tons," said Yelyzaveta Malyshko, an analyst from UkrAgroConsult.