KYIV, Oct 12 - Ukraine as of October 11 produced 46.8 million tons of grain and leguminous crops from an area of 12 million hectares (81% of the forecast) with the yield of 3.9 tons per ha, Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has said on its website.

KYIV, Oct 12 – Antonov, the state-owned aircraft designer and manufacturer, is working on a project to build the remotely piloted strategic attack air system meeting NATO standards as part of defense cooperation.

KYIV, Oct 12 – The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has raided the office of Moneyveo micro-financial organization, seized equipment and documents as part of an investigation into the illegal use of personal data of Ukrainian citizens.

KIEV, Oct. 15 - The National Commission on Securities and the Stock Market has instructed depository institutions from October 18 to block transactions with the securities of persons being under the sanctions imposed by the National Security and Defense Council, namely the blocking of assets, the halt of financial transactions and preventing the withdrawal of capital from Ukraine.

ODESSA, Oct. 13 – The administration of Illichivsk maritime merchandise port (Odessa region) says it did not hold talks with Brooklyn-Kiev stevedoring company on the construction of a grain handling terminal at the port.

KIEV, Oct. 13 - Coal mines in Ukraine's western Lviv region plan to boost output by 25% in 2015 to compensate for the shortfall in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the energy and coal industry said Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 15 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its long-term issuer credit rating on the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev and its issue ratings on Kiev's debt to 'CCC' from 'CC', the outlook is stable.

KIEV, Oct. 15 - Ukraine and Poland are in discussions over building a pipeline that would dramatically increase capacity for European gas imports, an official at UkrTransGaz, a state-owned gas shipper, said Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 14 – Ukrtransgaz has announced a tender to select a contractor to design technical documents as a part of the reclamation of land on the 4,109.0-4,128.40 kilometer section of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline (Chortkiv district, Ternopil region).

BRUSSELS, Oct. 14 - The European Commission has unveiled a list of 250 key energy infrastructure projects of common interest for the EU in the energy sector, which also includes a project in Ukraine, the commission said in a statement released in Brussels on Monday.