KIEV, Feb. 3 - The average wholesale market price of electricity on the wholesale electricity market of Ukraine in 2016 increased by 19%, from UAH 1,105.08 to UAH 1,315.03 per MWh.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – The total direct and guaranteed state debt of Ukraine in 2017 would remain at around 82% of GDP, and in 2018 would decline to 80% of GDP, the National Bank of Ukraine said in an inflation report posted on its website.

KIEV, Feb. 6 - Gas stocks in Ukraine's underground storage facilities declined by 35% to 9.58 billion cubic meters (bcm) since October 13, when the current heating season began, through February 4.

KIEV, Feb. 6 – Prices of imported cars increased over the past five weeks in proportion to the devaluation of the local currency, the hryvnia, against the US dollar, an industry analyst said Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 6 – Ukrainian-made space rockets will probably have 11 launches as part of international cooperation, Head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine Yuriy Alekseyev said.

KHARKIV, Feb. 6 – Another batch of mélange, a highly toxic liquid rocket fuel component which is stored at a military base in Kharkiv region, has been prepared for delivery to Russia for disposal, Kharkiv Regional State Administration reported.

MOSCOW, Feb. 6 - Boeing Co. has sued its Russian and Ukrainian partners - Russia's RSC Energia and Ukraine's Pivdenne Design Bureau - in the satellite launch service Sea Launch, saying they refused to pay it more than $350 million following the joint-venture's bankruptcy filing in 2009, Bloomberg reported.

KIEV, Feb. 6 – Inflation in Ukraine in January was 0.2%, same as in December 2011, the State Statistics Service reported on Monday.

In annual terms (against the same month of the previous year) inflation in January 2012 fell to 3.7%, from 4.2% in December, the service said.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – Ukraine has suspended imports of Russian electricity, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said in a posting on his page in Facebook.

"There was a period when we had to import electricity from Russia, but this was connected with the switching off of a power unit at Zaporizhia nuclear power plant on the one hand, and on the other hand it was easier to cover this shortage by [importing] supplies from neighboring countries," he wrote.

KIEV, Feb. 6 - The Ukrainian dairy manufacturers association Ukrmolprom has issued a statement protesting the statements made by Russian Rospotrebnadzor Director Gennady Onishchenko stating that Ukrainian cheese contains palm oil.