KIEV, Jan. 6 – The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry plans to raise $1 billion of investment in 2016 to restore irrigation systems in southern Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 6 – Ukraine's national commission for financial service markets regulation plans to annul insurance licenses of double liability Allianz Ukraine Insurance Company, private joint-stock Guta-Ukraine Insurance Company (both based in Kiev) and private joint-stock Guarantee Life Insurance Company (Kharkiv), citing the fact that residents of Russia own corporate rights in the companies and control them.

KIEV, Jan. 6 – The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a feasibility study for reconstruction of the Bar compressor station of the Soyuz gas pipeline (Bar district, Vinnytsia region).

KIEV, Jan. 10 – Ukraine in the second half of the 2011/12 agricultural year (January-June) could export 12.5-13 million tons of grain crops, according to Serhiy Stoyanov, the director general of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation.

KIEV, Jan. 10 – The Metinvest Group's iron ore mining and enrichment enterprises produced, according to operational results, 34.674 million tons of iron ore concentrate and 12.52 million tons of pellets last year.

KIEV, Jan. 10 - DTEK Holdings Ltd (Cyprus) will acquire a state-owned 45.103% stake in public joint-stock company Zakhidenergo, an electricity generating company, for the earlier proposed sum of UAH 1.932 billion.

KIEV, Jan. 11 - DTEK, which is controlled by Rinat Akhmetov, has won a tender for a 40.061% stake in Donetskoblenergo, offering UAH 467.6 million for the stake.

Initially, DTEK proposed UAH 449.6 million for the stake and its rival - Luhansk Energy Association controlled by businessman Konstantin Grigorishin – bid UAH 449.5 million.

KIEV, Jan. 11 - Ukraine will seek to stimulate domestic demand for its steel, mostly in housing and infrastructure projects, as weaker external demand has been affecting many of its companies, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 10 – None of the 40 checkpoints located on the Ukrainian-Russian state border in Kharkiv and Sumy regions are currently meeting modern requirements with respect to border and customs controls, and communications.