KIEV, July 27 – The deficit of Ukraine's national budget fell by UAH 16.1 billion year-over-year in H1, to UAH 10.4 billion, according to the Finance Ministry.

KIEV, July 27 – Canadian-based Secova Metals Corp. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a private group to acquire up to a 90% interest in the Sergeevske gold deposit in Dnipropetrovsk region.

KIEV, July 28 – One of the world's largest chemical companies, DuPont (the United States) plans to establish cooperation and invest into budget-sustained enterprise Zaporizhia Titanium and Magnesium Mill (ZTMK), which is under the management of the Ukrainian Industry Ministry.

KIEV, July 28 - Ukraine is making progress with a project that anticipates building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Black Sea to diversify its energy imports, Energy and Fuel Minister Yuriy Boyko said.

KIEV, July 26 – Ukraine could export no more than 18.5 million tons of grain in the current marketing year (July 2010 through June 2011), experts from the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation have forecast.

KIEV, July 27 – The customs clearance of 11 billion cubic meters of gas (bcm) belonging to Swiss-based RosUkrEnergo in favor of national JSC Naftogaz Ukrayiny in February 2010 was done in violation of laws, says Ukraine's State Customs Service.

KIEV, July 27 – Ukraine and the U.S. will soon continue the dialogue on a new format of cooperation in a program to dispose of solid fuel from SS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles at Pavlohrad Chemical Plant (Dnipropetrovsk region).

KIEV, July 27 – Cooperation between National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom and Russia's OAO TVEL, a nuclear fuel producer, was and remains a top priority for the company, Olha Kravets, vice president for general issues at EnergoAtom, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 27 – Five companies have applied for documents to bid in a tender for the sale of a 99.567% stake in Odessa portside chemical plant, the State Property Fund announced.

KIEV, July 28 – The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) welcomed the first-ever donation of $580,000 in shipments of 1,000 tons of wheat made from the government of Ukraine on July 22, 2009, to support WFP's efforts and to feed close to five million people in Ethiopia who are in need of emergency relief assistance, according to the UN news center.