KIEV, Aug. 6 - The Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Oversight (Rosselkhoznadzor) has compelled its regional offices to conduct full veterinary inspection of the goods coming from Ukraine by all means of transport, including hand luggage, baggage, or by post, so as to prevent import of pork products from the Zaporizhia region.

KIEV, Aug. 4 - Steel pipe production in Ukraine plummeted 41.6% year-on-year to 886,200 tons in January-July, reports Ukrtruboprom, the Dnipropetrovsk-based Ukrainian pipe producers' association.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – The State Commission for Securities and the Stock Market registered 121 issues of bonds worth UAH 3.54 billion in H1, down from 478 issues worth UAH 20.02 billion registered in the same period last year.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – The Ukrainian economy has reached the bottom and will stabilize in time, although the banking system is to face shocks in September and October due to a rise in toxic credits, according to Ihor Burakovsky, the director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting.

KIEV, Aug. 6 - Ukraine’s consumer prices recorded a negative monthly increase in July, the first in the past 11 months, reflecting weaker demand for products and services due to ongoing economic crisis.

The prices dropped 0.1% on the month in July, reversing a 1.1% hike in June and 0.5% increase in May, the State Statistics Committee’s reported Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 6 - Arcelor Mittal’s Ukrainian steelmaking unit has asked law enforcement agencies for protection after its senior managers came under three attacks over the past several weeks, the company said.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – Konti Group, one of Ukraine's largest confectionery producers, is planning in the second half of 2008 to invest over $51 million into its development, according to the company.

KIEV, Aug. 5 - Ukraine produced a preliminary estimate of 12.723 million tons of metallurgical coke with 6%-moisture content in January-July 2008, up 9.9% year-on-year, Anatoliy Starovoit, director of the Dnipropetrovsk-based coke producers' association Ukrkoks, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 5 - Total Ukrainian electricity output in January-July 2008 came to 115.064 billion kilowatt hours, an increase of 2.5% from the same period in 2007, the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 5 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has revised its estimate of the incidence of gross problematic assets (GPAs) in the Ukrainian financial system under a reasonable (but not catastrophic) scenario of economic recession to 35-50% from 50-75%, the rating agency said in a statement.