MOSCOW, Dec. 7 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has assigned a long-term foreign currency issuer credit ratings of 'B+' to the City of Dnipropetrovsk and 'B+' to the City of Ivano-Frankivsk, in Ukraine (foreign currency BB-/Stable/B; local currency BB/Stable/B; Ukraine national scale uaAA), reads a S&P press release.

The outlooks on both ratings are stable. At the same time, Standard & Poor's assigned its first Ukraine national scale ratings (aside from that on the sovereign issues) of 'uaA+' to Dnipropetrovsk and 'uaA' to Ivano-Frankivsk.