KIEV, Aug. 13 – Moscow-based ZAO Russian Soda Company has acquired over 80% of Lysychanska Soda in Luhansk region, Ukraine, Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper has reported, citingdeputy governor of Dnipropetrovsk-based PrivatBank Timur Novikov, who was an advisor on the deal.

"Lysychanska Soda's stockholders sold over 80% of its stocks to the Russian Soda Company," the newspaper quotes him as saying.