KIEV, Sept. 3 – The growth of Ukraine's GDP will accelerate to at least 4.5% in 2013, the Finance Ministry forecast in the draft national budget, Deputy Minister Serhiy Rybak said at a meeting of chairpersons of public councils at the executive bodies with government members.

KIEV, Sept. 4 – Ukraine's total state debt as of late 2012 will reach 36% of GDP, which is the same as of early 2012, the country's government predicts.

KIEV, Sept. 4 – The transfer of domestic heating and power plants from natural gas to coal will save up to $4 billion a year, according to Regions Party faction MP Viktor Turmanov, who heads Ukraine’s Coal Industry Trade Union.

KIEV, Sept. 4 - Ukraine’s biggest coal mining and power company DTEK entered new markets after signing contracts with Brazilian and Ethiopian companies to supply coal, DTEK’s press service said Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 4 – The major part of duty free stores and catering retail at Kiev’s Boryspil international airport have been closed since September 1 and the state faces losses, the airport has reported.

KIEV, Sept. 1 – The Ministry of Energy and the Coal Industry has drawn up and published on its Web site a draft of the Nuclear Code of Ukraine.

According to the explanatory memorandum, the code is designed to systematize the legal standards that regulate the nuclear industry.

KIEV, Sept. 2 - The National Bank of Ukraine is expecting zero inflation or slight deflation in August after 1.3% deflation was recorded in July, said Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank of Ukraine governor.

KIEV, Sept. 3 – Grain from Ukraine in the 2008/2009 marketing year can be exported only if the exporter has a certificate on the registration of an exchange agreement, according to a proposed cabinet resolution drafted by Ukraine's Economy Ministry and published on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - Ukraine produced a preliminary 14.697 million tons of metallurgical coke with 6%-moisture content in January-August 2008, up 9.1% year-on-year, Anatoliy Starovoit, director of the Dnipropetrovsk-based coke producers' association Ukrkoks, told Interfax.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - Ukraine reduced steel pipe production 6.1% year-on-year in January-August to 1.719 million tons, including 208,000 tons in August, Ukrtruboprom, the Dnipropetrovsk-based pipe manufacturers association, told Interfax.