KIEV, July 11 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has lowered its estimate of Ukraine’s 2012 grain harvest by 3.3%, or 1.5 million tons, compared with its June forecast, to 44.3 million tons.

KIEV, July 11 – Ukraine and Pakistan are expanding cooperation in the program for the development of the Pakistani Al-Khalid main battle tank.

KIEV, July 11 – Ukraine and China are preparing to update a contract worth $20 million signed in 2011 for the supply of Ukrainian power units with 6TD-2E9 engines (1200 hp) for China's MBT-2000 battle tank.

KIEV, July 11 – The opposition should stop trying to scare the country with apocalyptic forecasts, as the Ukrainian government is ready for a possible worsening of the situation in the world economy, said National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Kliuyev.

KIEV, July 11– Austria's Centragas Holding GmbH has become the largest shareholder in the troubled Nadra Bank (Kiev), the press service of the credit and financial institution has reported.

KIEV, July 11 - ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih metallurgical plant reduced its roll output by 10.4% year-on-year to 2.363 million tons in January-June 2011, the company said.

KIEV, July 11 – The prolonged rainy spell late in June and early in July damaged almost 8% of Ukraine's grain crops, according to Oleksandr Demidov, the director of the crop markets department at Ukraine's Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry.

KIEV, July 11 – The board of directors of the Alcantara Cyclone Space, a Ukrainian-Brazilian bi-national company, will consider an updated schedule of work on the creation of the Cyclone-4 space rocket complex at the Alcantara launch site in Brazil at a meeting at the end of this year, General Director of the Alcantara Cyclone Space from Ukraine Oleksandr Serdiuk has said.

KIEV, July 11 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, in the framework of modernizing the country's gas transportation system, will start reconstructing sections of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline with its own funds, the company said on Monday.

KIEV, July 12 – The National Bank of Ukraine in June sold $1.498 billion more in foreign currency on the interbank currency market than it bought, while in May the surplus of the central bank's interventions came to $127 million, according to the NBU's Web site.