KIEV, Dec. 6 ??“ Italy's UniCredito Group, a large European banking holding, intends to buy a large bank in Ukraine, according to a recent newspaper report.

UniCredito wants to acquire a bank whose core business is retail banking and whose size is equal to that of Kiev-based Aval Bank, the Delo daily newspaper quoted Peter Koelle, the managing director of HVB (part of the UniCredito Group) for the CIS, as saying.