KIEV, Dec. 5 – Ukraine has received the right to supply eggs, egg products, birds and poultry to the European Union, the State Veterinary and Biosecurity Service said.

The state service reported that Ukraine was put on the list of poultry product importers to the EU.

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Dec. 5 – Painting a bleak picture of the country’s prospects, Moody's Investors Service today downgraded Ukraine's government bond rating by one notch to B3 from B2.

KIEV, Dec. 5 - The Ukrainian government on Wednesday created a special commission to investigate a recent $1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal agreement with Gas Natural Fenosa of Spain, a senior official said.

KIEV, Dec. 2 – The National Bank of Ukraine has forecast a deficit of the balance of payments in 2011, whereas its previous forecast was a surplus.

"Already today we see that we'll have a deficit by the end of the year," said NBU Governor Serhiy Arbuzov. "However, this is not frightening as we see trends, the way the situation with the current account is changing and what financial account growth we've got."

KIEV, Dec. 2 – Ukrainian businessmen think taxation policy and corruption in Ukraine are their biggest problems, and that the situation in this sphere has worsened this year, according to a report on competitiveness of Ukraine's regions in 2011 presented by the Foundation for Effective Governance in Kiev.

According to the survey, the importance of the role of the country's tax policy in business grew from 14% to 16% in 2011, and corruption from 10% to 15%.

KIEV, Dec. 2 - Ekotechnik Praha (the Czech Republic) will begin constructing the first solar power station in Ukraine's Dnepropetrovsk region in 2012, the regional administration's information department said in a statement.

KIEV, Dec. 2 – Land reform under the current proposal before Parliament could cost Ukraine’s agro-industrial sector $12 billion in its first year, according to the president of the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club, Alex Lissitsa.

KIEV, Dec. 2 – New rules for traveling to the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant were introduced on December 2.

Head of the Ukrainian State Agency for Management of the Exclusion Zone Volodymyr Kholosha earlier said that tourists would not be allowed to visit the zone.

KIEV, Dec. 2 - State enterprise Zorya-Mashproekt (Mykolaiv) has signed a contract with China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) to supply energy equipment for one of the fields being developed by the Chinese company.

KIEV, Dec. 2 - The board of directors of Ferrexpo plc has approved allocation of $212 million to modernize capacity at Poltava Mining to complete the switch to production of pellets with 65% Fe content, the company said in a statement.