KIEV, June 25 – The Association of Ukrainian Banks and the Ukrainian Credit-Banking Union have called on the president to veto a law banning the sale of property used as collateral.

KIEV, June 26 – The National Electricity Regulatory Commission forecast that the first auction on the access to power transmission lines for electricity exports would be held in August 2009, said NERC head Valeriy Kalchenko.

KIEV, June 29 - Ukraine??™s Anti-Monopoly Committee allowed UkrNafta, the country??™s largest crude oil producer, to buy a chain of 19 gasoline filling stations in western region of the country, the committee reported Thursday.

KIEV, June 29 - Ukraine??™s national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans to spend 150 million hryvnias ($30 million) to equip 400,000 households with gas meters by the end of the year, the company said Thursday.

KIEV, June 29 - Vanco Energy Company, a U.S.-based independent oil and gas company, that is to develop offshore oil and gas fields in Ukraine, awarded the first deepwater drilling contract to of Atwood Oceanics, a newswire reported.

KIEV, June 25 ??“ From January through May AIS Corporation increased car sales by 23% in comparison with the same period of 2004, to 18,200 vehicles, the company told Interfax-Ukraine. The corporation noted this represents 16.7% of car sales in Ukraine.

KIEV, June 29 ??“ This June the Ukrainian vodka company Nemiroff commissioned a new line for vodka production with a capacity of 12,000 bottles per hour at its second plant, which started operating on Feb. 29, 2004.

KYIV, May 29 – The DiXi Group, a Ukrainian think tank focused on energy and climate policy, has developed three indicative scenarios for the upcoming summer season that project electricity shortfalls ranging from zero to nearly 3 GW – equivalent to 10–20% of demand. This was announced by Olena Lapenko, General Manager for Security and Resilience at DiXi Group.

KYIV, May 29 – International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and the Ukrainian authorities have reached staff level agreement (SLA) on the Eighth Review of the four-year, $15.5 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement. Subject to approval by the IMF Executive Board, Ukraine would have access to about $0.5 billion (SDR 0.37 billion), bringing total disbursements under the program to $10.65 billion.

KYIV, May 29 – In Ukraine, during the war period from 2022 to the first quarter of 2024 inclusive, the largest number of agricultural enterprises closed – 1,261, followed by wholesale trade, real estate and construction companies, reports the YouControl.Market resource based on the results of the study.