IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Feb. 10 – Kalush City Council (Ivano-Frankivsk) region has asked the state-run National Center for Hazardous Waste Management Enterprise to take measures to ensure the safety of the storage of hexachlorobenzene in the city.

DNIPROPETROVSK, Feb. 10 - Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises in January 2011 increased natural gas consumption by 20 million cubic meters compared to the previous month, to 516 million cubic meters, the Metalurgprom union announced.

DNIPROPETROVSK, Feb. 10 - Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises in 2010 saw a pretax loss of UAH 3-3.5 billion, the director general of the Metalurgprom union (Dnipropetrovsk), Vasyl Kharakhulakh, has said at a meeting of the mining and smelting complex representatives in Dnipropetrovsk.

KIEV, Feb. 10 – Any nuclear fuel supplied to Ukraine by Westinghouse could not be cheaper than the fuel made by Russia's OJSC TVEL, according to the former chairman of the state committee for nuclear energy, Mykhailo Umanets.

DNIPROPETROVSK, Feb. 10 – The state-run company Ukrpromzovnishekspertyza has said that prices of iron ore, coking coal and scrap ferrous metal are expected to grow more in 2011.

KIEV, Feb. 10 – Ukraine is extending its presence on the world market of space technology, relying on multilateral international cooperation and the country's potential, said Chief Designer and CEO of Ukraine's leading rocket and space technology developer Pivdenne Design Bureau (Dnipropetrovsk), Oleksandr Dehtiariov.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – The introduction of a ban on early return of deposits would represent direct interference by the state in civil-legal and economic-legal relations, according to Yulia Yashenkova, a senior lawyer of AstapovLawyers law firm.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – The possible introduction of imported fuel duties is not a measure against the European Union, as the key external factor impacting the prices in the country is the products of Mozyr oil refinery, the share of the Ukrainian fuel market of which is around one fourth, according to Kiev-based TNK-BP Commerce Ltd. CEO Felix Lunev.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 11 – Ukraine is to announce a tender next week to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant near Odessa, Ukrainian Ambassador-at-Large Viacheslav Kniazhnytsky told the press in Brussels on Thursday.

KHERSON, Feb. 10 – China Petroleum&Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) is ready to finance the reconstruction of Kherson oil refinery if Ukraine grants state guarantees, the co-owner of the refinery, Ihor Yeremeyev, said at a meeting of the regional reform committee in Kherson region.