KIEV, March 10 - Inflation in Ukraine in February stood at 1% compared to 1.1% in January and 0.9% in December last year, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, March 10 – UkrTatNafta, Ukraine’s largest oil refinery, on Friday received the first shipment of crude oil from Azerbaijan delivered via the Odessa-Kremenchuk oil pipeline, a refinery official said.
UkrTatNafta has been previously receiving some Azeri crude via railroad deliveries, but the pipeline shipments open door for increased supplies and faster deliveries.

KIEV, March 11 – The government has distributed UAH 4.4 billion from international financial institutions (IFIs) for road repair and reconstruction in Ukraine.

KIEV, March 12 – The shortage of funds for conducting the spring sowing campaign in 2014 is estimated at UAH 8 billion, the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry reported.

KIEV, March 12 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has decided to participate in a comprehensive safety upgrade program for the operating nuclear power units of Ukraine with a EUR 300 million loan.

KHARKIV, March 12 – The shipment of another batch of melange, a highly toxic liquid rocket fuel component, which is stored at a military base A-2136 in Shevchenkivsky district in Kharkiv region, and its transportation for disposal to Russia have begun, according to the regional media center of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine in Kharkiv.

KIEV, March 13 – AeroSvit Airline said that it is pointless to attract investment to resume regular long-haul flights due to court rulings against it, and the airline does not rule out that a bigger reduction of personnel than foreseen in the restructuring program could occur.

KIEV, March 13 - Canada's EastCoal Inc. is dismissing 150 miners at Verticalnaya mine (Sverdlovsk, Luhansk region) and 250 miners at Menzhinsky mine (Pervomaisk, Luhansk region) due to the unfavorable situation on the coking and steam coal markets, the company reported.

KIEV, March 13 – The Economic Development and Trade Ministry has registered an appeal from four Ukrainian oil refineries to open an investigation into the subsidizing of imports of fuel from Belarus, a source in the government told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, March 13 - Ukraine on Wednesday denied media reports that it faces problems with building a $1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal, and said the project will be accelerated.