KIEV, March 29 - Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny seeks to borrow $2 billion from Russian bank Gazprombank to be able to pay for Russian natural gas supplies this year.

KIEV, March 27 – Only the companies belonging to Rinat Akhmetov and Konstantin Grigorishin will be able to participate in the privatization of a 50% stake in Ukraine's largest power supply company PJSC Dniprooblenergo (Dnipropetrovsk), a source at the Ukrainian government has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, March 27 - State enterprise EnergoAtom plans to agree with Holtec International (the United States) by May on a scheme for financing the construction of a centralized waste nuclear fuel facility, EnergoAtom head Yuriy Nedashkovsky told journalists in Kiev.

KIEV, March 27 – The Association of Ukrainian Banks has slammed the work of the National Bank of Ukraine and called for a change in its leadership.

"My duty as a citizen, the AUB president and a specialist in the banking industry force me to raise the question of dismissing the NBU's leadership," AUB President Oleksandr Suhoniako said at a press conference on Tuesday.

KIEV, March 29 – The State Railway Administration (Ukrzaliznytsia) is planning to complete in April all preparations for the launch of high-speed trains.

KIEV, March 28 – State commercial companies facing competition from the private sector should be allowed to use the practice of procurement for operations in the private sector, experts of the European Union and the World Bank have said.

KIEV, March 28 – Participants in the Automobile March of Protest motor rally in Kiev on Friday called for the carrying out of "people's reforms."

The Co-Chairperson of the Council of Entrepreneurs and head of the parliamentary committee for industrial and policies and entrepreneurship Natalia Korolevska said at the meeting that the motor rally was a second signal for the government.

KIEV, March 26 - Dutch multimedia holding United Media Holding (UMH), which owns media assets in both Ukraine and Russia, plans an initial public offering (IPO) for 2012 or 2013, UMH President Boris Lozhkin said during a presentation for analysts.

KIEV, March 24 – Ukraine may harvest from 45 million to 48 million metric tons of grain in the current year compared to 46 million tons in 2009, Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk predicted.

KIEV, March 26 – Kherson Shipyard has delivered the Siem Sapphire, the first ship of the series of four vessels that are being built at the shipyard for Norway's Kleven Prosjekt VI A.S.

According to the shipyard, the vessel will provide towing and supply services for drilling platforms.