MOSCOW, March 21 - VAB Bank has given a mandate to Landesbank Berlin, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Austria and UniCredit to organize a foreign loan that is expected to be worth at least $30 million, Interfax reported.

KIEV, March 21 - Ukraine on Wednesday held its first ever auction among foreign companies to sell power for exports to the European Union marking a change of the way such exports will now be handled.

HORLIVKA, March 21 ??“ The Environment Ministry approved the first project on utilizing methane gas at Zasiadko, Ukraine??™s largest coal mine, in the Donetsk region under the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, the ministry said.

PRAGUE, March 21 - Czech national air carrier Czech Airlines will start regular flights to the Ukrainian city of Odessa March 26 as part of its new summer flight schedule, CSA spokesperson Jitka Novotna said Tuesday.

KIEV, March 18 ??“ Lex Holding (Kiev), the owner of the Karavan trading and entertaining centers, will invest about $135 million into development of three centers in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia, a company representative says.

KIEV, March 21 ??“ The Ukrainian Association of Ferroalloy Producers (Dnipropetrovsk) believes Ukrainian producers of manganese ore ??“ Marhanets and Ordzhonikidze Ore Mining and Dressing Mills should boost exports because of the favorable situation in the international markets for their output.

KIEV, March 21 - Vneshtorgbank (VTB), the Russian bank for foreign trade, does not expect that its work on the Ukrainian market will involve significant risks, said VTB President and Chairman Andrei Kostin.

KHARKIV, March 21 ??“ The government has decided in principle to unite Ukraine's domestic aircraft manufacturers into a single structure, but its form has yet to be defined, First deputy Prime Minister Anatoliy Kinakh said.

KYIV, Feb 21 – Leasing activity in the office real estate market in Kyiv amounted to 40,000 square meters m at the end of 2022, which is only 22% of the volume of 2021 (about 185,000 square meters), the press service of CBRE Ukraine has reported.

KYIV, Feb 21 – The consumer confidence index (CCI) of Ukrainians in January fell by 0.1 points compared to December and amounted to 83.8 points (on a scale from zero to 200), including Expected Economic Conditions in the Country Over the Next Year and Five Years decreased, according to a survey by the Info Sapiens agency.