KIEV, March 11 – The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to close state-run Solotvyne salt pit in Tiachiv district in Zakarpattia region.

The cabinet's secretariat reported last week that the government made the decision to avoid an environmental disaster.

KIEV, March 11 – Ukraine's GDP in the fourth quarter of 2012 fell by 2.5% compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, according to updated information from the State Statistics Service.

Earlier, the service said that the country's GDP in October-December 2012 dropped by 2.7%.

KIEV, March 11 - The Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on March 12 will decide on the issue of EUR 300 million to Ukraine within a comprehensive program for enhancing safety at Ukraine's nuclear power plants, the bank said.

KIEV, March 11 – The United States is currently actively using anti-dumping measures against Ukrainian products, which will reduce Ukrainian exports for decades, the government's commissioner for European integration, Valeriy Piatnytsky, said.

KIEV, March 11 – Ukrainian metals companies are continuing to boost metal products output mainly thanks to a rise in demand on foreign markets, said Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn.

KIEV, March 11 – Ukrenergo has announced an auction to sell lots for access to Ukrainian interstate power lines for electricity exports for the period from April 1 to April 30.

KIEV, March 10 - AvtoKrAZ holding company, Ukraine's only producer of heavy-duty trucks, resumed operations on March 10, the company's press secretary, Dina Stehantseva, told Interfax-Ukraine.

LUHANSK, March 11 – Luhansk region is considering constructing a wind power plant, said Mykhailo Malevany, deputy director general of Luhansk energy Amalgamation Ltd.

He said the development of the project is at the initial stage.

KIEV, March 11 - Steel production in Ukraine could fall 19.1% in 2009, to 30 million tons from 37.1 million tons in 2008, Deputy Industrial Policy Minister Serhiy Hryschenko said Tuesday.

KIEV, March 11 - Russian oil major TNK-BP plans to invest $41.2 million in modernization of its Ukrainian oil refinery Linos in 2009, the press service of TNK-BP Ukraine, TNK-BP’s Ukrainian subsidiary, reported Wednesday.