KIEV, Sept. 17 – Fitch Ratings has assigned Ukraine's $500-million five-year eurobond and $1.5-billion 10-year eurobond ratings of 'B'.

As Fitch said in a statement, the ratings are in line with Ukraine's Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of 'B', which has a Stable Outlook .

KIEV, Sept. 17 – A delegation of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development shareholders will start a six-day visit to Ukraine on September 19.

"The delegates will visit Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kakhovka, Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk in the country's southern and eastern regions, as well as Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – It's likely that the vacancy rate on the warehouse real estate market in Kiev in 2009 will not exceed 30%, according to experts from the Ukrainian representative office of CB Richard Ellis international consulting company.

KIEV, Sept. 18 - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved a Programmatic Financial Rehabilitation Development Policy Loan 1 (PFRL 1) for Ukraine in the amount of $400 million.

The decision was taken at a meeting in Washington on Sept. 17, the World Bank said in a statement.

KIEV, Sept. 20 - Ukraine has postponed indefinitely the signing of an agreement with a Russian-Ukrainian consortium for the development of a major iron ore deposit, a spokeswoman at the State Property Fund said Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 19 - Fitch Ratings has placed Bank Forum's Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default rating (IDR) of 'B-' (B minus) and Support rating of '5' on Rating Watch Positive (RWP).

PRAGUE, Sept. 19 - The leftist Slovak government Wednesday passed a draft agreement on securing long-term electricity supplies from Ukraine, which now awaits approval by the Ukrainian side, the Czech News Agency (CTK) reported from Bratislava.

KIEV, Sept. 20 - Sweden's Metso Minerals has signed a 22 million euro contract with Arcelor Mittal Steel to supply minerals processing equipment to its concentration plants in Kryvy Rih in Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – The share of foreign capital in the Ukrainian banking sector fell from 31.7% in July to 30.2% in August, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

LONDON, Sept 19 - Moody's Investors Service has assigned long-term global and national scale ratings of B2 and A2.ua to the Ukrainian City of Berdyansk, the ratings agency announced.