KYIV, March 4 – The program on import substitution of Russian components in defense industry initiated by the Ukroboronprom state concern in the conditions of breaking off defense cooperation with Russia due to the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas, has been implemented by 70%, Ukroboronprom Head Pavlo Bukin said.

KYIV, March 2 – Kyivstar, the largest Ukrainian mobile operator, has paid nearly UAH 1 billion to the national budget for 4G communications licenses in the 2600 MHz band, company president Peter Chernyshov said.

KYIV, March 2 - Ukraine and Saudi Arabia are working out a plan for industrial cooperation under the program of the new An-132 light multi-purpose aircraft with a payload capacity of 9.2 tons, which was designed by the Kyiv-based Antonov State Enterprise and which will be mass-produced on the territory of the Saudi customer.

KYIV, March 2 - The Ministry of Justice has formed a group that will seek to launch action to recover a UAH 172 billion (about $6 billion) fine from Gazprom imposed by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) in foreign jurisdictions, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko said.

KIEV, March 3 – The annual check of transnational company Westinghouse's fuel assemblies was conducted from February 15 to March 1 at reactor three of Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant (NPP), the press service of the National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom has reported.

BRUSSELS, March 3 - A discount on gas supplies for Naftogaz Ukrayiny can be discussed, but would only be possible by means of lowering the export duty on Russian gas, as with the 'winter package' for Ukraine, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

KIEV, March 3 – System Capital Management Holding President Rinat Akhmetov has urged all his compatriots to join hands for the sake of a united and indivisible Ukraine.

KIEV, March 1 – Kiev City Council has approved new borders of the city, including forests at the village of Kotsiubynske in its territory.

Seventy-four deputies voted for this decision.

Director of the land resources department of Kiev City State Administration Viktor Petruk reported that the last time Kiev's borders were approved was in 1953, when its area was 83,558 hectares.

KIEV, March 1 – Having accumulated a significant grain stockpile, Ukraine will resume wheat exports in April, according to Leonid Kozachenko, president of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation.

KIEV, March 1 – The Cabinet of Ministers has proposed, starting in 2014, to gradually reduce the permissible level of phosphates in synthetic cleaning products made, imported or sold in Ukraine, with the limit on the content of phosphates at 0.7% by 2021.