KIEV, May 6 - Arcelor Mittal Kryviy Rih (formerly Kryvorizhstal), Ukraine's biggest steel producer, reduced roll production tentatively 2.6% year-on-year to 2.335 million tons in January-April, the company told Interfax.

KIEV, May 7 – Ukraine should clarify how much Central Asian countries will charge next year for gas supplied to the Russian companies that resell it in Ukraine in order for the talks with Russia on the conditions of natural gas supplies after 2008 to be a success, according to Mykola Martynenko, chairman of Parliament’s committee for fuel and energy sector, nuclear policy and nuclear safety.

KIEV, May 7 - Ukraine wants five years to pass before European gas prices are imposed and will suggest that 15-year contracts are signed at transit and gas supply talks with Russia's Gazprom.

KIEV, May 7 – The hryvnia exchange rate on the cash market could return to the UAH 4.8-4.9/$1 range soon after the expansion of the exchange rate corridor to UAH 4.75-4.92/$1 during May holidays, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 6 – Planned restrictions on truck traffic through Kiev have been postponed for a month, according to Kiev City State Administration’s first deputy head, Denis Bass.

According to Bass, the administration made the decision after talks with the representatives of the ASMAP (Association of International Automobile Carriers).

KIEV, May 7 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Wednesday her group will next week submit to Parliament controversial amendments to the constitution that are aimed at dramatically reducing the powers of President Viktor Yushchenko.

KIEV, May 7 - Ukraine will probably increase exports of steel to the United States in 2007, while exports to the European Union are likely to be little changed, an official at the Economy Ministry said Monday.

WARSAW, May 7 - Firm support is required from Ukraine in order to extend the existing pipeline from the Black Sea port of Odesa to the Polish city of Plock, Poland's Economy Minister Piotr Wozniak said Monday.

KIEV, May 7 - Ukraine's steel industry, the backbone of the country??™s economy, increased finished roll output 10% year-on-year in January-April to 11.9 million metric tons, the Industrial Policy Ministry reported.

KIEV, May 7 - Mittal Steel Kryviy Rih, Ukraine's biggest steel mill, boosted finished roll production 11.3% year-on-year in January-April to 2.39 million tonnes, the Ukrainian Industrial Policy Ministry told Interfax.