Swedish retail giant IKEA said that it could invest up to USD 2.5 bln on the Ukrainian real estate market under favorable circumstances, the company’s Russia & CIS representative Oksana Belaychuk said yesterday. Belaychuk said IKEA was considering major projects in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk and Lviv; it currently leases 64 ha of land in Odesa region and is in negotiations for land in the five other regions for 20-30 ha land plots. IKEA currently has more than 250 stores throughout the globe.