LONDON, April 17 – Ukraine plans to tell bond holders of state-run Ukreximbank on Friday that the bank will announce it will default on its eurobonds unless the creditors agree to reschedule repayments on these bonds, the Financial Times reported.

WASHINGTON, April 18 - Ukrainian authorities met with investors in Washington on Friday as part of an effort to secure agreement on extending maturities of bonds issued by state-run Ukreximbank.

KIEV, April 18 – Boryspil International Airport state-run enterprise has selected Morgan Stanley Bank to organize a eurobond issue worth $300 million, reads a report in the Visnyk Derzhavnykh Zakupivel bulletin.

MOSCOW, April 18 - TNK-BP is considering the possibility of transferring the polypropylene unit from the Ukrainian Lysychansk Oil Refinery (LINIK), which was halted due to unprofitability under existing conditions, to Yaroslavnefteorgsintez (YANOS), which TNK-BP owns jointly with Gazprom Neft.

KIEV, April 18 – Ukraine intends to intensify talks with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank concerning a loan for upgrading its gas transportation system, Ukraine's Deputy Minister for Energy and the Coal Industry Volodymyr Makukha said on Wednesday.

KIEV, April 18 - The Atlantic Cruiser, a German ship chartered by a Ukrainian company, carried no military purpose goods, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry asserted.

KIEV, April 18 – Ukraine and NATO have agreed to continue cooperation in scrapping ammunition under the NATO Partnership for Peace Trust Fund project.

A relevant framework agreement was signed between the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA) in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, April 19 - The All-Ukrainian Association of Car Importers and Dealers is preparing protests against a Trade Ministry recommendation to introduce a duty of 6.46% on cars with over one-liter engines, but no more than 1.5-liter engines, and a duty of 15.1% on cars with engines of over 2.2 liters, irrespective of their origin, for three years, said association Director General Oleh Nazarenko.

LONDON, April 19 – Ukraine will not default on its debt, the country’s finance minister said on Thursday, adding that the government would be able to meet all its funding obligations in a year of heavy external refinancing needs.

KIEV, April 19 – The rise in the credit portfolio at Ukrainian banks in 2011 will be around 10%, and in 2012 it could accelerate to 15-20%, Moody's Investors Service said.