KIEV, Jan. 16 - Money supply in Ukraine in December 2016 increased by 5.4%, to UAH 1.102 trillion, according to preliminary monetary statistics data, posted on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

KIEV, Jan. 16 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny on January 11 retained Covington & Burling LLP, a New York law firm, for $6.31 million, to represent its interests in arbitration against Russia under a claim over losses it incurred as a result of the annexation of Crimea by Russia.

KIEV, Jan. 17 - Ukraine’s national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny will next month start tapping into a $500 million loan for natural gas imports, Yuriy Vitrenko, the commercial director at Naftogaz, said Tuesday.

KIEV, Jan. 15 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said he hopes that trade between Ukraine and China will reach $10 billion in 2013.

According to the Ukrainian government's press service, Azarov said this during a meeting with China's National Defense Minister Liang Guanglie.

KIEV, Jan. 15 - The International Finance Corporation has approved the issue of up to $85 million to OKKOSkhidinvest LLC (Lviv), a joint venture created by OJSC Galnaftogaz Concern and ADM CEECAT Recovery Fund, to expand the OKKO fuel filling station chain in eastern Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 15 – The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to liquidate RD Bank, reads a posting on the Web site of the Individuals' Deposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 16 – The State Property Fund has included Sumykhimprom on the list of the facilities that are to be prepared for sale in 2013, reads a statement in the Vidomosti Pryvatyzatsii newspaper.

KIEV, Jan. 16 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, jointly with Raiffeisen Bank Aval (a subsidiary of Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International) and John Deere, a leading global manufacturer of agricultural machinery, have announced the launch of a program to provide small and medium agricultural companies with John Deere agricultural machinery.

KIEV, Jan. 16 – The hryvnia will slide 8.75% in 2013 to UAH 8.70/$1 from UAH 8.00/$1 in 2012, the World Bank has predicted.

KIEV, Jan. 17 – The last obstacle to signing a production sharing agreement with Shell on extraction of shale gas was removed on Thursday after the Kharkiv regional council had given its approval to the project.