KHARKIV, Sept. 28 - The German firm Natursafte is going to build a juice factory outside Kharkiv, Yaroslav Yushchenko, the deputy chairman of Kharkiv Regional Administration, who has recently returned from a working visit to Germany, told reporters, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

Western investors are planning to inject around ?25 million in the new project, he said. Half of this sum is to be raised as a subvention from the European Union.