KYIV, Nov 17 - The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is mulling the provision of a $150 million loan and up to $320 million in insurance and reinsurance for construction of a large wind power plant in Zaporizhia region by EuroCape.

KIEV, Nov. 20 – Ukraine's National Commission for Energy and Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) may soon decide on the cancellation of incentives applied in electricity exports and electricity purchases by ferroalloy plants, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – Industrial production in Ukraine fell by 4.9% in October compared to October 2012, which was better than in September 2013 and August 2013, when the decline in industrial production was 5.6% and 5.4% respectively, the State Statistics Service reported on Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 19 – A Ukrainian next-generation An-158 regional passenger aircraft, which is owned by Cuba's Cubana de Aviacion, is undergoing trials in Latin America at the request of potential customers on the regional market, Antonov State Enterprise announced on Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 19 - Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI, Austria), the parent company of Raiffeisen Bank Aval (Kiev), has denied reports it plans to sell the Ukrainian subsidiary.

"RBI currently does not intend to sell Raiffeisen Bank Aval, and, accordingly, we have not made such a decision," the Austrian bank said.

KIEV, Nov. 20 – Olena Mykolaichuk, head of Ukraine's State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate, has proposed that 10-year licenses be issued with the further possibility of extending service life of reactors of nuclear power plants.

"In many European countries the projected term is announced, but the license is issued every 10 years," she told reporters in Yuzhnoukrainsk (Mykolaiv region) on Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 20 – The reduction in activity of foreign banks on the Ukrainian market is linked to the toughening of requirements on capital in the European Union, National Bank of Ukraine Governor Ihor Sorkin said.

KIEV, Nov. 20 - Pipeline operators in Ukraine and Slovakia are on the verge of signing a deal that will allow the European Union to ship gas through Slovakia to Ukraine, reducing Kiev's dependence on Russia, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Nov. 19 - Metinvest, Ukraine's biggest iron and steel holding, has rejected reports it was buying Slovakia-based U.S. Steel Kosice.

"We haven't bought it," an official Metinvest representative told Interfax, without commenting further.

U.S. Steel has also denied Slovak press reports that U.S. Steel Kosice was being sold to Metinvest.

KIEV, Nov. 19 – Ukraine expects to sign a loan agreement with the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) in late 2012 to improve the safety of the country's nuclear power plants, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko said on Inter television channel on Friday.