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.

KIEV, July 28 – The grain harvest in Ukraine in 2009 is to fall to 37-38 million tons, which would still be the second-largest figure over the past 10 years, according to Kernel Group, a large operator on Ukraine's sunflower seed oil market.

BERLIN, July 28 - The United States European command said Monday it had wrapped up Sea Breeze 2008 multinational military exercises in Ukraine, which had faced protests and complaints from Moscow, AFP reported.

KIEV, July 25 – The Cabinet of Ministers is planning to make a final decision on a loan with the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation concerning the construction of a terminal at Boryspil Airport on July 30.

KIEV, July 25 – Trading of shares in Cadogan Petroleum Plc on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), which was temporarily suspended at the company's request due to reports in the mass media of the alleged loss of its rights to develop some deposits in Ukraine, resumed on Thursday after Cadogan said the reports were false.

KIEV, July 25 – Kiev-based insurance company INGO Ukraine has made a payment on the largest insured accident registered on the Ukrainian insurance market, connected with a fire in a warehouse facility in Kiev late in 2007.

KIEV, July 28 – The Warsaw Stock exchange, which recently bought 25% of Kiev-based Innex Stock Exchange, has started jointly drawing up a development strategy for the Ukrainian stock exchange to gain leading positions of the domestic market and realize joint projects with WSE, according to WSE President Ludwik Sobolewski.

KIEV, July 28 ??“ Naftogaz Ukrayiny has not yet signed contracts for supply of extra natural gas to Ukraine this year, missing a deadline set by the government by four weeks, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Thursday.

KIEV, July 28 ??“ In H1Nemiroff, one of Ukraine's biggest alcohol producers, increased sales by 31% over the same period of 2004, to 3.431 million decaliters.

KIEV, July 27 - President Viktor Yushchenko has signed into law a bill suspending the law on the specifics of the privatization of Ukraine's national communications operator, Ukrtelecom, until a new state privatization program is adopted, the presidential press service said, according to Interfax-Ukraine.