KIEV, April 19 – Vehicle production in Ukraine in 2010 could fall by 20% compared to 2009, when 69,300 passenger cars, trucks and buses were assembled, according to the Ukrautoprom association.

KIEV, April 17 – The National Electricity Regulatory Commission is to issue a license on the supply of up to 7.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year to Gazprom Sbyt Ukraine.

KIEV, April 17 – It is unlikely that the first issue of treasury bonds worth UAH 500 million planned by the Ukrainian government will be in great demand with the public, and it will not therefore be able to soak up excessive liquidity, according to experts of Ukrainian investment companies polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

The key reason for this is the unattractive interest rate on the bonds, the experts said.

KIEV, April 17 – Poltava Gas & Oil Company's pretax profit for 2007, according to national tax accounting standards, was UAH709.575 million, which was 44.8%, or UAH219.546 million, up on the same period of 2006, the company said.

KIEV, April 17 - Ferrexpo plc mining company, which controls Poltava Mining (PGOK), reached an agreement with its main customers to raise prices on iron ore pellets by 90% started from April 1, the company said in a statement posted on its own website and filed with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on Thursday.

KIEV, April 17 – The share of foreign capital in the overall statutory capital of Ukrainian banks in March climbed to 36.7%, up from 32.3% in February, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, April 18 – The European Commission has opened an investigation into $37.4m given in aid to Hungarian steel producer ISD-Dunaferr, part of Donetsk-based Industrial Union of Donbas, according to an official report of the European Commission.

KIEV, April 18 - The government approved the financial plan of the national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny for 2008, the company reported Friday.

KIEV, April 18 - Ukraine’s biggest privately-held power and mining company, Donbass Fuel-Energy Company, or DTEK, announced Friday it will invest 4.8 million hryvnias ($950 million) in modernization of its coal extracting arm by 2012.

KIEV, April 18 - Russia’s oil major Lukoil restarted its Lukoil-Odessa Ukrainian oil refinery after three years of major overhaul, company officials said Friday.