KIEV, Oct. 23 - The National Bank of Ukraine has no plans to expand loan support for Prominvestbank and, instead, is pushing for the bank to bring in a strategic investor as soon as possible, the head of the National Bank, Volodymyr Stelmakh, told journalists on Wednesday.

"Its like slow death. The more we delay, the more problems will multiply," he said.

KIEV, Oct. 23 - Ukraine will take urgent measures to save the country’s steel and mining sector, which has been reducing output dramatically in reaction to falling demand worldwide, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Thursday.

At an emergency government meeting early Thursday, Tymoshenko appointed Vitaliy Hayduk, her top economic advisor, to lead the team that will come up with the list of measures to be approved.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – The hryvnia continued to lose value against the U.S. dollar Thursday, briefly breaching the psychological barrier of 6.0 hryvnias to the dollar, forcing the National Bank of Ukraine to intervene.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – Three economic rescue packages, prepared by Ukraine’s three main rival political groups, have been scheduled for debate in Parliament on Friday amid a growing consensus that anti-crisis measures are needed to avert recession.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – The National Bank of Ukraine should refrain from revaluing Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, as any revaluation could increase the foreign trade deficit, Ukrsotsbank Board Chairman Borys Tymonkin has said.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – Payments to the victims of the fatal Dnipropetrovsk gas explosion which occurred Oct. 13 was on the agenda at a meeting on Monday between President Viktor Yushchenko and Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg.

KIEV, Oct. 23 - The government of Tatarstan and Tatneft company officials believe that the Ukrainian authorities have not taken decisive measures to restrain the actions of former UkrTatNafta CEO Pavlo Ovcharenko, which are considered by the company's Tartar shareholders as a corporate raid.

KIEV, Oct. 23 - The cutoff of Russian oil supplies to Kremenchuk Oil Refinery (UkrTatNafta) in Ukraine's Poltava region could lead to an artificial shortage of oil products in Ukraine, Ukrainian Economics Minister Anatoliy Kinakh said at a press conference on Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 23 ??“ Arseniy Yatseniuk, President Viktor Yushchenko??™s deputy chief of staff, will be nominated to lead a committee that will supervise reorganization of Our Ukraine, Yushchenko??™s party, a group activist said Monday.

MOSCOW, Oct. 23 ??“ Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov will probably skip discussions on natural gas when he visits Ukraine for trade talks on Tuesday, a newswire reported Monday citing a source at the Russian government.