KIEV, Jan. 10 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said he is sure that the price of Russian import gas will be stable in 2014 for Ukraine.

"My forecast concerning gas price for 2014 looks like this: gas price will be stable for us," he wrote on his page on Facebook on Friday.

KIEV, Jan. 11 – With the assistance of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Ukraine plans by the end of February to remove 1,250 tons of rocket fuel component known as "melange," which has been stored at stockpiles of land troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Odessa region, for utilization in Russia, the Defense Ministry reported.

KIEV, Jan. 11 - PJSC State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine is considering the purchase of 10 vessels with a carrying capacity of 55,000 tons and more under its loan agreement with China.

KIEV, Jan. 13 - Ukraine's coal mining enterprises in 2013 reduced coal production, according to current data, by 2.6% compared to 2012, to 83.566 million tons.

KIEV, Jan. 13 - Ukrainian automakers in 2013 reduced production of motor vehicles (cars and buses) by 33.9%, to 50,449 units.

KIEV, Jan. 11 – Ukraine's international reserves increased by 8.5% in December 2013, to $20.416 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Jan. 13 - The world's largest raw materials trader, Cargill, has acquired a 5% stake in Ukrlandfarming, Ukraine's largest agricultural holding in terms of land bank, for $200 million, the Financial Times edition has written.

MOSCOW, Jan. 10 - Ukraine, once controlling two thirds of the transit of Russian gas to former Soviet countries, now handles less than half of the pumping, according to Interfax calculations based on data on Russian and European dispatchers.

KIEV, Jan. 10 – DTEK says it is not planning to dismiss employees of DTEK Sverdlovantracit (Luhansk region) during the optimization of the company's structure.

KIEV, Jan. 10 - The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to oblige banks to report on problem interbank loans.

The decree amends the provision on Ukrainian banks' giving information on loan resources sale and purchase transactions in the national currency on the interbank credit market.