KIEV, Nov. 3 - Arcelor Mittal, the world’s biggest producer of steel, on Monday denied media reports that it had shut down completely its steel-making operation in Ukraine, admitting steel output had been “significantly” reduced.

KIEV, Nov. 3 - Ukraine’s only aluminum smelter, ZALK, owned by Russian aluminum giant Rusal, started to shut down some of its aluminum-making facilities due to rising debts for power consumption, a top company official said Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 31 – Fares for public transport in Kiev will be raised on Nov. 4, head of the Kiev Metro municipal enterprise Petro Miroshnykov said.

"An order will be published [Nov. 1], and new tariffs will come into force from Nov. 4," he said at a briefing on Friday.

KIEV, Oct. 31 - Eurocar, which produces Volkswagen automobiles in Ukraine's Trans-Carpathian region, is cutting production by 50% due to a significant decline in demand.

KIEV, Oct. 31 – Commercial rents in Kiev will fall every year by around 20% for one or two years due to the crisis on the loan market, according to Robert Velan, the managing director of Kiev-based 1849 PLC Investment and Developing Company.

KIEV, Nov. 3 – The financial crisis will lead to a redistribution of the Ukrainian insurance market, the head of the supervisory council of Kiev-based Oranta National Insurance, Oleh Spilka, told the press.

KIEV, Nov. 3 - A 32.8% stake in Ukrainian oil refinery Galychyna will be auctioned off on Dec. 15, Sokrat, a Kiev-based brokerage, said Thursday, citing an agreement with owners of the stake.

KIEV, Nov. 3 - The central committee of miners' and metallurgists' trade unions of Ukraine, together with the trade union of the Kryvy Rih Mining and Metallurgical Mill Kryvorizhstal, are to closely monitor the execution of social investment commitments by Mittal Steel, the company's new owner, central committee chairman Volodymyr Kazachenko told journalists, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Oct 3 – Exports of electricity from Ukraine to Europe in September increased 555 times, imports decreased almost five times, according to data on the website of the network of transmission system operators of continental Europe ENTSO-E.

KYIV, Oct 1 - Local authorities have got the opportunity to buy gas for heating budgetary institutions in the coming heating season at a price of UAH 13.6/cubic meter (excluding VAT), Mayor of Dnipro Borys Filatov has said.