KIEV, April 10 - Bogdan Corporation, one of the largest players on the car manufacturing market in Ukraine, by the end of the first half of the year could lay off another 3,500 employees, while at present a total of 9,500 employees work at all subdivision of the corporation.

"Today the number of staff has been cut from 11,500 to 9,500 people, and if the situation on the car market worsens, the number of employees would be cut by another 3,500," the corporation's press secretary, Serhiy Krasulia, told Interfax-Ukraine.