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.

KIEV, April 21 – Ukraine cut electricity exports by 48.2% or 836.5 million in kWh year-on-year in Q1, to 897.3 million kWh, the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

The key reason for halving of exports is the stoppage of electricity supplies to Moldova, which share in the total electricity exports in Q1 2008 was over 39%.

KIEV, April 18 – Kiev-based Steltex Investments developing company is to invest $100 million in the construction of a hotel complex with apartments in Yalta (Crimea), its board chairman, Oleh Salmin, said at a press conference in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, April 21 - NYSE Euronext is forecasting that the stocks of Ukrainian companies will appear in its listing before the end of this year, according to Aaron Goldstein, the exchange's head of business development in Russia.

KIEV, April 21 - The level of dollarization of the Ukrainian economy as of late March was 24.05%, 1.3% more than in early 2008, the Economy Ministry reported.