KIEV, Aug. 13 - Yenakiyeve Iron and Steel Works part is closing down temporarily after coming under artillery fire on Wednesday, parent company Metinvest said.

KIEV, Aug. 13 - The Chernihiv region authorities and the Chernihiv border unit of the northern regional department of the State Border Service have drawn up a border reinforcement program which stipulates the construction of engineering structures and ditches with a total length of 183 kilometers, Chernihiv Regional Council Chairman Mykola Zverev said on Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 14 - Kyivmiskbud Holding Company (Kiev), one of the largest developers in Ukraine, as part of the initiatives of the Confederation of Builders of Ukraine has decided to stop using construction materials produced in Russia, the company said.

KIEV, Aug. 13 - Ukraine increased electricity exports by 10.9% year-on-year in January-July, to 5.899 billion kilowatt-hours, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry reported.

KIEV, Aug. 13 - Ukraine's exports in the 2013/2014 marketing year (MY, July-June) of nearly 30.2 million tons of grain, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will rank it second among the world's largest exporters of grain, according to the Ukrainian Grain Association.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – France's Lafarge has appealed to the interdepartmental commission for combating unlawful acquisitions and takeovers to protect its rights in Ukraine, Oleksandr Skrypnyk, the director general of the Road Metal business direction, said in an interview with the Uriadovy Kurier government newspaper.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – First Ukrainian International Bank, which is under the control of Rinat Akhmetov's SCM, and the Industrial Union of Donbass Corporation (ISD, both based in Donetsk) have started talks on restructuring credits issued by the bank to the ISD group.

KIEV, Aug. 13 - Shell has certified Ukrainian pipe group Interpipe (Dnipropetrovsk) as an authorized supplier of certain product lines, Interpipe announced on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, Aug. 14 - Negotiations on resuming imports of confectionery products made by the Ukrainian confectionery giant Roshen to Russia will begin in Moscow on Friday, says Gennady Onishchenko, the chief of the Russian consumer protection watchdog Rospotrebnadzor and the country's chief public health official.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – Ukrainian automobile manufacturers in January-July 2012 produced a preliminary 46,516 vehicles and buses, which is almost 20% down on January-July 2011, read materials of the Ukrautoprom association published on Monday.