DNEPROPETROVSK, Feb. 16 - Metallurgical enterprises in Ukraine have since this year began been having problems with being supplied with scrap due to weather conditions, Metallurgprom General Director Vasyl Kharakhulakh said.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – The Central Election Commission has approved the cost of the budget-funded program for the election of people's deputies for 2012 at UAH 817.5 million.

KIEV, Feb. 14 – Dnipropetrovsk region steelmaker ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih posted UAH 1.2 billion in net profit in 2010, whereas the company was in the red in 2009 with net losses estimated at UAH 120 million.

KIEV, Feb. 14 – The American Chamber of Commerce has called on Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko to stop duty-free fuel imports to Ukraine.

The issue was discussed during a roundtable entitled "Ukraine's Path to Growth and Energy Prosperity: Engaging American Business", which took place in Washington, DC on February 14, 2010, according to a statement by the ACC press service.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – Sales of new passenger cars in January 2011 came to 11,200 cars, which was 50% up on January 2010.

"The January results exceeded all expectations. January continued the trend of the last few months of 2010 and tuned the market to an optimistic mood," reads a posting on the Web site of the Auto-Consulting information and analytical group.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – The Industrial Union of Donbas Corporation (ISD, Donetsk) is actively selling Assigned Amount Units (AAUs) under the Kyoto protocol thanks to the elimination of environment-unfriendly production facilities at its steel works.

PARIS, Feb. 16 - The daughter of the mayor of Kiev has been the victim of a robbery in Paris.

Kristina Chernovetskaya said she had 4.5m euros-worth (£4m) of jewels stolen as she drove into the city from Charles de Gaulle airport, according to a report filed Monday by the BBC.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – Dnipropetrovsk-based Interpipe Pipe and Wheel Company announced it has supplied 1,000 tons of pipes with diameters from 33-168 millimeters to build pipelines for the automatic fire-fighting system in the Dubai subway.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has suspended a tender to select a technology for VVER-1000 reactor nuclear fuel production to create a nuclear fuel plant in Ukraine, an informed source in the sector has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – Heat supply companies owe UAH 3.5 billion to Gaz Ukrayiny for gas consumed in present heating season (starting on October 1, 2009), with a 46% level of payments, the company reported on Monday.