KIEV, Feb. 20 - Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Administration has asked the Ukrainian government to improve raw materials customs clearing for Karpatnaftokhim LLC, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry reported.

KIEV, Feb. 20 – PrivatBank (Dnipro) officially informed Deutsche Trustee Company Limited, a trustee on its 2018 eurobonds, that the bank does not have any obligations under the securities, according to a report on the website of the London Stock Exchange.

KIEV, Feb. 20 - Ukraine’s stocks of anthracite coal, a key fuel for power generating plants, shrunk rapidly over the past seven days due to a blockade of imports from breakaway regions controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

MOSCOW, Feb. 16 - Gazprom supplied 1.7 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas to Donbas for a total sum of about $440 million in 2015, a Gazprom report said.

KIEV, Feb. 18 – The annual value of Ukrainian long-term migrant households abroad, representing 3% of total number of households in Ukraine, total around $4 billion, while total annual value of household savings in Ukraine is about $6 billion, according to a study organized as part of a project of the International Organization for Migration.

KIEV, Feb. 18 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will continue actively investing into the Ukrainian economy on conditions that the country's three branches of government work as one team, progress in reforms and political stability is achieved, EBRD Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus Francis Malige said.

KIEV, Feb. 19 – Banks have again suspended work of their offices in the central part of Kiev, where clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers have intensified.

KIEV, Feb. 20 - ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih has announced the conducting of the first and second stages of the program on the voluntary retirement of workers in 2013 in the period from March 18 to March 29 inclusively, reads an official report of the company in the Metallurg corporate newspaper.

KIEV, Feb. 20 - Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk has committed to giving half or more of his fortune during his lifetime and after to philanthropic causes, joining the Giving Pledge, a philanthropic initiative founded in 2010 by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

KIEV, Feb. 20 - Ukraine is considering the introduction of protective duties on imports of gasoline in order to help domestic oil refineries restart production, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Wednesday.