KIEV, Oct. 28 - Ukraine will ship 65 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas via its pipelines to Europe in 2015, up 9.4% on the year, Ihor Prokopiv, the head of UkrTransGaz, the state shipper, said Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 26 - The Canadian government is ready to spend CAD 30 million on small and medium-sized businesses' projects in Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – Avangard, the largest producer of eggs in Ukraine, has sent its first batch of egg products to the European Union.

"There is the first delivery, a small one," chairman of the holding board of directors Oleh Bakhmatiuk said at the investment conference "A Fresh Look at Ukraine" organized by SP Advisors investment company, held in Kiev.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – It is likely that the next round of gas talks between Ukraine and Russia with the participation of the European Commission scheduled for October 29 in Brussels will bring no success, Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak said.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – The economic results of September indicate that the decline in Ukraine's GDP has reached the bottom, Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak said.

KIEV, Oct. 25 - Subsidiary Nemiroff Ukrainian Vodka Company, under control of the Hlus family, has resumed the operation of its industrial complex in Vinnytsia region after almost a two-month idle period linked to the blocking of supplies of bottles.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – The failure to submit an inspection report on Roshen's confectionary factories by Russia's Rospotrebnadzor violates international and Russian laws, the Ukrkondprom Association said.

KIEV, Oct. 28 - Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant has finished loading 66 Westinghouse fuel assemblies and 97 TVEL fuel assemblies during the scheduled maintenance at reactor three of the plant.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – Ukraine will issue up to UAH12.03 billion of promissory notes to restructure its debt on value added tax and up to UAH3.6 billion to pay for its budget deficit.

The decision is stipulated in cabinet resolution No. 766 of October 9, 2013, which has been posted on the cabinet's Web site.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Oct. 28 - Russia and Ukraine are running tests in order to decide whether the production of Antonov An-124 Ruslan aircraft will resume.