KYIV, Nov 9 - Siemens expects its business to expand at least 10% in Ukraine in the 2018 financial year (October 2017-September 2018), Siemens Ukraine CEO Maciej Tomasz Zielinski said.

KYIV, Nov 9 - Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin during a meeting with State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Kazuyuki Nakane has discussed the intensification of the bilateral political dialogue, the development of economic cooperation and the range of problems of the DPRK.

KIEV, Nov. 11 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has lowered its forecasts for Ukrainian grain production and exports in the 2015/2016 marketing year (July through June) by 3.2% and 5.6% compared to its the October forecasts, to 59.825 million tons and 33.68 million tons, respectively.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has allowed the Roshen confectionery corporation, which is among Ukraine's largest confectionery producers, to gain control over Hungary's Bonbonetti Choco confectionery.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry forecasts that the grain harvest in Ukraine in 2012 is about 46.2 million tons, against the 56.7-million-ton bumper crop in 2011.

KIEV, Nov. 12 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny in January-September spent UAH 539.9 million on connecting settlements located in rural areas to the gas supply network.

KIEV, Nov. 12 - Ukrainian state enterprise Skhidny Mining and Enrichment Combine (VostGOK), Ukraine's only uranium ore producer and processor, produced 691.3 tons of natural uranium concentrate in January-September 2012, up 30.7% from 528.8 tons in the same period of 2011, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry said in a report.

KIEV, Nov. 12 - Ukraine is within days to break ground on a $1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal on the Black Sea, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko said Monday.

The terminal, which is to be built in near the port of Odessa, is part of a plan to ease Ukraine’s dependence on imports of Russian natural gas, he said.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - Oil supplies to Ukrainian refineries dropped by 1.3% year-on-year in January-October to 7.746 million tons, the Fuel and Energy Ministry announced.

Including vacuum gas-oil and gas condensate, five Ukrainian refineries received 8.575 million tons oil crude over the ten months, which was a year-on-year increase of 2.2%.

KIEV, Nov. 10 - Electricity consumption in Ukraine in January to October, taking into account losses in electricity transmission, fell by 12% or by 18.535 billion kilowatt-hours year-on-year, to 135.962 billion kilowatt-hours, the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.