KIEV, Dec. 10 - Ukraine’s national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the main shipper of Russian natural gas to the European Union, issued a statement Wednesday assuring customers of secure and steady gas supplies.

KIEV, Dec. 10 - Ukraine’s largest steel producer, Arcelor Mittal Kryvy Rih, reduced reinforcing steel bar prices by up to 50% after a ruling by the Anti-Monopoly Committee, the government’s anti-cartel agency, the committee reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 7 - Inflation in Ukraine in November was 2.2%, compared to 2.9% in October and 2.2% in September, and since the start of the year has reached 14.5%, the State Statistics Committee reported on Friday.

KIEV, Dec. 7 - The World Bank sees no need to review its forecast for Ukrainian GDP growth because of an increase in the cost of imported natural gas to $179.5 per 1,000 cubic meters starting from January 1, Martin Raiser, the head of a group that is preparing the World Bank's partnership strategy with Ukraine, said on Friday.

ODESSA, Dec. 10 - Ukraine and Poland have agreed to complete the construction of the Odessa-Brody-Plock-Gdansk oil pipeline and use it to pump oil from Ukraine to Poland, rather than in the reverse direction, as has been proposed, President Viktor Yushchenko said in Odessa on Friday, while presenting the oil pipeline development project.

KIEV, Dec. 10 - The Fuel and Energy Ministry last week disclosed the structure of the price of Central Asian natural gas, which Ukraine will buy at $179.50 per thousand cubic meters in 2008 on the Ukrainian border.

KREMENCHUK, Dec. 10 - Kriukivsky railway car plant is to invest around UAH100 million in 2008 in the upgrade of its production facilities, the head of the plant's supervisory council and president, Volodymyr Prikhodko, has said.

KIEV, Dec. 7 ??“ EnergoAtom, Ukraine's national nuclear energy generating company, hopes by February 2007 to receive a loan from Euratom and the EBRD to fund safety improvement measures at the Khmelnitsky and Rivne nuclear power plants, Interfax reported.

KIEV, Dec. 8 ??“ Ukraine's national nuclear energy generating company EnergoAtom plans to hike by 7% the price of electricity to 9.5 kopecks per kWh, according to EnergoAtom President Andriy Derkach.

KIEV, Dec. 8 ??“ Zaporizhia Car Plant, or ZAZ, Ukraine??™s largest car producer, plans to receive $175-200 million in December through placing three-year credit linked notes (CLNs) with a 10% interest rate, Interfax reported.