KIEV, July 14 - EnergoAtom has signed a new five-sided memorandum on joint actions to achieve a zero failure rate of nuclear fuel, a new member of which became Russia's Rosenergoatom.

KIEV, July 12 – The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a draft resolution on the approval of a strategy for the development of Ukrainian seaports through 2038, which will allow considerably increasing cargo handling at Ukrainian ports, the Infrastructure Ministry reported.

KIEV, July 12 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has downgraded its forecast for sunflower oil production in Ukraine in the 2013/2014 agricultural year (September – August) by 80,000 tons compared to its June's assessment, to 4.119 million tons, reads a posting on the USDA Web site.

KIEV, July 12 – Slovakia's Star Group has finished building a first phase of the largest solar power plant in Ukraine with the declared capacity of 120 MW located near Chervony Perekop and Vasylyivka settlements of Kakhovka District in Kherson region.

KIEV, July 15 – Sales of new passenger cars in Ukraine fell by 5% year-over-year in H1, to slightly over 97,000 cars, the AUTO-Consulting information-analytical group reported.

SOCHI, July 12 – Ukraine and Russia have discussed the resumption of the serial production of the An-124 aircraft, said Vitaliy Lukyanenko, spokesman for Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

KIEV, July 15 - Ukraine plans to launch in operation two new power units at Dniester Hydroelectric Pumped Storage Power Plant (HPSPP), Europe's largest such facility, in 2014 and 2015, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said.

KIEV, July 13 - Ukraine will increase dependence on Russian crude oil significantly if the government moves to slap higher duties on imports of gasoline and diesel, according to an independent energy consultancy.

KIEV, July 12 – The realization of a project to build a new 750 kV overland power line with the expansion of 750 kV Kyivska substation to transmit power generated by Rivne and Khmelnytsky nuclear power plants to central and eastern regions of Ukraine will start in September 2012.

KIEV, July 12 – Ukraine is planning to launch this summer a joint program with Egypt on the mass modernization of Topaz OT-62 armored personnel carriers for the Egyptian army.