KIEV, March 16 ??“ Ukrainian commercial banks have almost tripled borrowing on international markets through issues of Eurobonds to $650 million in 2005, UkrSibBank, the country??™s No. 5 bank by assets, reported Thursday.

KIEV, March 16 ??“ Ukraine plans to use its recently received market economy status to defend its exports of steel pipes to Europe that has come under threat due to and opened anti-dumping investigation.

MINSK, March 16 - A contract on delivery of Belarusian gasoline and diesel fuel to Ukraine may be signed in mid-April, Belarusian First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko told Interfax.

KIEV, March 15 ??“ Twenty five big Ukrainian companies, mostly steelmakers and coal miners, urged the government Tuesday against a major tariff increase on railroad cargo shipments, suggesting the hike may stall economic growth.

KIEV, March 15 ??“ Ukraine??™s economic growth steeply slowed down in February as the government struggled with launching economic reforms and re-drafting a 2005 budget that may have otherwise reinvigorated the expansion.

MUNICH, Feb 16 - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he directed his ministers not to sign off on a proposed agreement to give the United States access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals because the document was too focused on U.S. interests.

KYIV, Feb 16 – As a result of the abnormal winter flood in the Ukrainian river basins, which is observed this winter, production of electricity at hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) has increased, according to the website of Ukrhydroenergo on Thursday.

KYIV, Feb 16 – Acting Chairman of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine and Chief State Inspector for Nuclear and Radiation Safety Oleh Korikov offered Head of the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority Petteri Tiippana support for Finland's efforts to replace Rosatom with another friendly supplier of nuclear fuel at nuclear power plants.

KYIV, Feb 16 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has downgraded its forecast for the growth of the Ukrainian economy in 2023 to 1% from 8%, which it expected in September last year, according to the updated Regional Economic Prospects published on Thursday.

KYIV, Feb 16 - Russia has switched its aerial strike tactics to fool Ukraine’s air defenses, using decoy missiles without explosive warheads and deploying balloons, a senior Ukrainian official said Thursday.