KIEV, Aug. 5 – The National Bank of Ukraine's gross international reserves in July expanded by 6.98%, or by $2.475 billion, to $37.914 billion, whereas in June they grew by 3%, or $1.026 billion, the central bank reported on its official Web site.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – Ukraine’s consumer prices dropped 0.5% on the month in July, reacting to a bumper grain harvest this season as cash-strapped farmers had rushed to sell the commodity, depressing the prices.

NEW YORK, August 6 – Arcelor Mittal USA agreed on sale of its Sparrow Point steel plant to a joint venture, which includes Esmark Incorporated, Wheeling Pittsburgh Corporation, along with Cia. Vale do Rio Doce (Brazil) and Industrial Union of Donbas (Ukraine), Bloomerg reported.

KIEV, Aug. 6 - Ukraine may push for higher transit rates for Russian natural gas supplies to Europe, a deputy secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council said Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 6 - Holtec International and the Ukrainian government-owned Chernobyl Nuclear Plant signed a protocol Friday to start the project to encase all of the irradiated nuclear fuel from Chernobyl's three undamaged reactors, Holtec reported.

KIEV, Aug. 6 - The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development has pledged $507 million to help Ukraine build a new shelter for the Chernobyl reactor, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, The Associated Press reported Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 3 – Ukraine International Airlines President Yuriy Myroshnikov says that the conflict around Ukrainian Mediterranean Airlines Ltd. (UM Air) may result in all of Ukraine's airlines being put on the European Union's "blacklist."

KIEV, Aug. 3 – Ukraine's government forecasts an increase in real wages of 14.6% in 2007, Economy Minister Anatoliy Kinakh said during a cabinet meeting.

SIMFEROPOL, Aug. 3 – The state-owned Chornomornaftogaz plans to find a new partner to jointly develop the Odessa gas field, as the existing partner – Ukrgazvydobuvannia – is not fulfilling the obligations it undertook, the company says.

KIEV, Aug. 3 – The national Naftogaz Ukrayiny may create a new daughter company to service and develop its own chain of filling stations, which would sell fuel and compressed gas, Andriy Pliatsko, director of Ukravtogaz, which exploits the NGV-re-fuelling compressor stations of Ukrtransgaz – the daughter company of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.