KIEV, June 1 – Tariffs for hot running water and heat supplies for Kiev residents are to be increased by 34% and 41%, respectively, starting July 1, as stipulated in Kiev city administration resolution No. 392 of May 31.

KIEV, June 3 - Donetsk-based Altcom financial and industrial group plans to build a $400 million glass plant in Donetsk region that would use the float production method, said the group's deputy director general, Mykhailo Kovalev.

ZAPORIZHIA, June 1 – Estonia's Alikonte Ou is mulling the creation of a wind farm in Zaporizhia region's Tokmaksky district in Ukraine, Zaporizhia regional council reported on Monday.

KIEV, June 1 – A switch to payment in advance for gas supplies could result in the suspension of transit shipments via Ukraine's territory, according to an official from the Ukrainian Presidential Secretariat.

KIEV, June 3 – Private power plants stopped buying coal from state coal mines on June 1, said Oleh Pohodin, the director general of the Coal of Ukraine state company.

He said that private power plants have a possibility to buy and store coal at their warehouses.

KIEV, June 3 - Sweden's Swedbank, which owns Ukraine's Swedbank and Swedbank Invest, could buy a 100% stake in Kiev-based Business Standard bank, the newspaper Economic News reported, citing a representative of one of the investment banks.

KIEV, June 3 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, on Tuesday denied reports that Gazprom has been increasingly resorting to price dumping while selling gas to Ukrainian consumers to win greater market share.

ODESSA, May 30 – About 99% of all crops in Ukraine are in good condition, Serhiy Melnyk, the deputy agriculture minister, said during the Zhnyva-2008 meeting in Odessa on Friday.

KIEV, June 3 – Kiev-based Gazprom Sbyt Ukraine Ltd. plans in June to supply over 500 million cubic meters of natural gas to industrial consumers, and from July to sell over 1 billion cubic meters of natural gas to contractors, the gas trader reported on Monday.

KIEV, May 31 ??“ Ukratomprom, the recently created company incorporating nuclear power and uranium producing assets, plans to attract significant investment for uranium production to fully provide Ukrainian nuclear power plants with domestic uranium within five years.