KIEV, June 20 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will provide 25-30% of its total financing to Ukraine in hryvnias this year.

KIEV, June 20 – The State Property Fund plans in July to announce a tender to sell a 92.75% stake in Sumykhimprom, and in December a 99.57% stake in Odessa Port-Side Plant and a 75.22% stake in Turboatom.

KIEV, June 20 – Ukraine’s capital city had 236 more millionaires at the end of 2011 than had in the year before, a rise of 25%, the Kiev agencies of the State Tax Service reported.

According to the report, based on the results of the declaration campaign of the citizens' incomes obtained in 2011, the general number of millionaires with Kiev residence permits totaled 916 people in 2011, while in 2010 it was 680 people.

KIEV, June 20 - Keppel FELS of Singapore completed ahead of schedule construction of the second oil and gas rig for Ukraine, Yevhen Bakulin, the head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national energy company, said Wednesday.

KIEV, June 20 - The government on Wednesday voted to approve a dramatic 32.5% cut in Russian natural gas imports in 2012, disappointing Gazprom and underscoring a lack of progress in talks over lower natural gas prices.

KIEV, June 19 – The updated draft Energy Strategy of Ukraine for the period of until 2030, which has been prepared by the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry, preserves negative trends in the country's fuel and energy complex.

KIEV, June 20 – Parliament has permitted the issue of government domestic loan bonds worth UAH 1 billion to use to pay for additionally issued shares of public joint-stock company Ukrhydroenergo (Vyshgorod, Kiev region).

KIEV, June 20 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry reports it has increased the excise duty on gasoline and diesel fuel for the second ten-day period of June by EUR 35.26 per ton, to EUR 233.26 per ton.

KIEV, June 17 – Ukraine's gross foreign debt grew by 2.7% to $120.5 billion in Q1, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

"In the first quarter of 2011 Ukraine's gross foreign debt grew by $3.1 billion, or 2.7%, to $120.5 billion (84.1% of GDP) as of April 1, 2011," the NBU said in a posting on its official Web site.

KIEV, June 17 – The pickup of Ukraine’s GDP growth over the first five months of 2012, from 4.6-4.9% in April to some 5% in May, provides encouraging news that the country’s economic recovery may be accelerating, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank of Ukraine's governor.