KIEV, Jan. 12 - Eurocar, a Ukrainian automaker assembling Volkswagen cars, boosted car output 26% on the year to 11,193 vehicles in 2005, the company said in a statement Thursday.

KIEV, Jan. 12 - Ukraine and Russia are currently working on a new agreement that would add more details to a natural gas supply contract signed last week, an official said Thursday.

KIEV, Jan. 10 - By Jan. 1, 2005, Kyivstar GSM had serviced 6.25 million subscribers, which was 2.06 times up on Jan. 1, 2004, the company told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 12 - Breaking forecasted targets, Ukrainian cement enterprises in 2004 increased production of cement by 20.9% in comparison with 2003 to 10.7 million tons.

KIEV, Jan. 12 - In 2004, Eurocar Plant (Solomonove, the Transcarpathian special economic zone) produced 8,420 Skoda cars, or 53.6% more than in 2003 (in 2003 it produced 5,480 such cars), the company reported, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec 10 – Pivnichny (Northern) Mining and Processing Plant (Kryvy Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region), part of the Metinvest Group, is currently increasing the utilization of production capacities due to the stabilization of technological processes and the opening of sea routes.

KYIV, Dec 7 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), which recently reduced the period for returning foreign currency earnings of agricultural exporters from 180 to 90 days, will continue to counteract shadow exports and fight non-return of foreign currency earnings, including by building new relations with the State Tax Service and State Customs Service, said Governor of the NBU Andriy Pyshnyy.

KYIV, Dec 10 – Epicenter K LLC (Kyiv) is negotiating the financing of a project to expand grain storage infrastructure, purchase of agricultural machinery and grain hoppers for the amount of over EUR 100 million with the European Investment Bank (EIB).

KYIV, Dec 10 – Ukraine as of December 10 had threshed 75.2 million tons of grain and leguminous crops from 15.2 million hectares (ha) with the average yield being 4.95 tons/ha, which is higher than the entire grain harvest for 2018 when it was 70.1 million tons.

KYIV, Dec 10 – Norway's Scatec Solar has suspended a project to build a solar power plant with a capacity of 65 MW in Kherson region over the possible reduction of the terms of preliminary power purchase agreements (pre-PPA), Scatec Solar Manager for Business Development in Ukraine Alina Sviderska told Interfax-Ukraine after a meeting of the Fuel & Energy Committee of the European Business Association (EBA).