KYIV, Aug 12 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine’s largest steel company, has agreed to invest $1.8 billion over the next five years to reduce pollutions by 55%, the company reported Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 11 – The Pechersky District Court has arrested property of Vadim Novinsky worth UAH 4.467 billion as a temporary restraining order under a claim of the Individuals' Deposit Guarantee Fund on the collection of property from the owners-substantial shareholders in Bank Forum.

KIEV, Aug. 11 – Ukrainian traders are alarmed at a problem of the future harvesting and shipment of sunflower seeds in Donetsk and Luhansk region, Derzhzovnishinform state enterprise reported.

KIEV, Aug. 11 – The Agroton agricultural group (Luhansk region) has said that the company’s headquarters are temporarily closed and the company currently cannot access part of its land due to the situation in the eastern regions.

KIEV, Aug. 9 – In the next three or four years QR codes will be placed on packages of 30-40% of Ukrainian products, OJSC Ukrplastic Board Chairperson Iryna Miroshnyk has said.

KIEV, Aug. 9 - Ukraine is conducting negotiations with India and China on the use of the NITKA testing ground in Crimea, the Defense Ministry reported.

KIEV, Aug. 12 - Electricity consumption, including in-process losses in the Ukrainian grids, fell by 4.1%, or by 4.555 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), year-over-year in January-July, to 106.209 billion kWh.

KIEV, Aug. 12 – The Bogdan Corporation, one of Ukraine's biggest carmakers, is ready to invest around $1 million in the creation of new production facilities for dismantling and recycling cars to meet a requirement of the law on the vehicle recycling, which has now taken effect.

MOSCOW, Aug. 12 – The blueprints of Ukraine's proposed nuclear fuel production plant, a joint venture of Russia's OJSC TVEL and Ukraine's Nuclear Fuel State Concern, are to be approved this autumn.

KIEV, Aug. 12 - Housing and utilities tariffs in Kiev will not be increased this heating season, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Vilkul said.