BRUSSELS, Nov. 7 – The European Commission has expressed the hope that Ukraine and Russia will fulfill their obligations related to Russian gas supplies to the European Union, despite their current disputes.

KIEV, Nov. 7 – The Roshen Corporation is still ready to receive inspectors from Russia's Rospotrebnadzor or other supervision agencies to check the quality of its confectionary products, the owner of the corporation, MP Petro Poroshenko told reporters on the sideline of the regional meeting of the World Economic Forum in Kiev.

KIEV, Nov. 8 - Ukraine will be able to deliver 2 million tons of corn to China before year-end under its loan agreements with Beijing, Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - Ukrainian companies plan to increase steel production by 4.6% to 36.5 million tons in 2012 from what is expected in 2011, Vasyl Kharakhulakh, the head of the Metallurgprom industry association, said at a meeting with representatives of Ukraine's mining and metals companies in Dnipropetrovsk on Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 10 – The Ukrainian government has approved a draft law on the ratification of an agreement with the Azeri government on cooperation in oil transportation via Ukraine, Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Ministry Volodymyr Makukha announced.

KIEV, Nov. 10 – An agreement on a free trade area with the CIS member states has been submitted for ratification by Parliament, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry reported.

KIEV, Nov. 8 – Ukraine industrial prices shrank by 1.8% in October after rising by 1.2% in September and by 0.5% in August, the State Statistics Service reported on Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – The sunflower harvest in Ukraine in the coming 2011/12 marketing year (MY, September-August) will be 7.8 million tons, which is 15.2% up on the previous marketing year, according to forecasts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – DTEK, the largest private vertically integrated energy holding in Ukraine, has set up a subsidiary, DTEK Magyarorszag Energiakereskedî Kft (Budapest), to trade in electricity on the European markets.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – The Cabinet of Ministers has allowed the export of grain stored onboard vessels, and the first vessels started leaving the ports as of November 8, 2010, President of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation Leonid Kozachenko said.